Encyclopedia of Crystallographic Prototypes

AFLOW Prototype: A3B_cI32_204_g_c

  • M. J. Mehl, D. Hicks, C. Toher, O. Levy, R. M. Hanson, G. L. W. Hart, and S. Curtarolo, The AFLOW Library of Crystallographic Prototypes: Part 1, Comp. Mat. Sci. 136, S1-S828 (2017). (doi=10.1016/j.commatsci.2017.01.017)
  • D. Hicks, M. J. Mehl, E. Gossett, C. Toher, O. Levy, R. M. Hanson, G. L. W. Hart, and S. Curtarolo, The AFLOW Library of Crystallographic Prototypes: Part 2, Comp. Mat. Sci. 161, S1-S1011 (2019). (doi=10.1016/j.commatsci.2018.10.043)
  • D. Hicks, M.J. Mehl, M. Esters, C. Oses, O. Levy, G.L.W. Hart, C. Toher, and S. Curtarolo, The AFLOW Library of Crystallographic Prototypes: Part 3, Comp. Mat. Sci. 199, 110450 (2021). (doi=10.1016/j.commatsci.2021.110450)

Skutterudite (CoAs3, $D0_{2}$) Structure: A3B_cI32_204_g_c

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Prototype : CoAs3
AFLOW prototype label : A3B_cI32_204_g_c
Strukturbericht designation : $D0_{2}$
Pearson symbol : cI32
Space group number : 204
Space group symbol : $\text{Im}\bar{3}$
AFLOW prototype command : aflow --proto=A3B_cI32_204_g_c
--params=
$a$,$y_{2}$,$z_{2}$


Other compounds with this structure

  • (Fe,Ni)As3, IrAs3, RhAs3, CoP3, IrP3, NiP3, PdP3, CoSb3, IrSb3, and RhSb3

  • Useful skutterudites have iron and nickel alloyed with cobalt.

Body-centered Cubic primitive vectors:

\[ \begin{array}{ccc} \mathbf{a}_1 & = & - \frac12 \, a \, \mathbf{\hat{x}} + \frac12 \, a \, \mathbf{\hat{y}} + \frac12 \, a \, \mathbf{\hat{z}} \\ \mathbf{a}_2 & = & ~ \frac12 \, a \, \mathbf{\hat{x}} - \frac12 \, a \, \mathbf{\hat{y}} + \frac12 \, a \, \mathbf{\hat{z}} \\ \mathbf{a}_3 & = & ~ \frac12 \, a \, \mathbf{\hat{x}} + \frac12 \, a \, \mathbf{\hat{y}} - \frac12 \, a \, \mathbf{\hat{z}} \\ \end{array} \]

Basis vectors:

\[ \begin{array}{ccccccc} & & \text{Lattice Coordinates} & & \text{Cartesian Coordinates} &\text{Wyckoff Position} & \text{Atom Type} \\ \mathbf{B}_{1} & = &\frac12 \, \mathbf{a}_{1}+ \frac12 \, \mathbf{a}_{2}+ \frac12 \, \mathbf{a}_{3}& = &\frac14 \, a \, \mathbf{\hat{x}}+ \frac14 \, a \, \mathbf{\hat{y}}+ \frac14 \, a \, \mathbf{\hat{z}}& \left(8c\right) & \text{Co} \\ \mathbf{B}_{2} & = &\frac12 \, \mathbf{a}_{3}& = &\frac14 \, a \, \mathbf{\hat{x}}+ \frac14 \, a \, \mathbf{\hat{y}}+ \frac34 \, a \, \mathbf{\hat{z}}& \left(8c\right) & \text{Co} \\ \mathbf{B}_{3} & = &\frac12 \, \mathbf{a}_{2}& = &\frac14 \, a \, \mathbf{\hat{x}}+ \frac34 \, a \, \mathbf{\hat{y}}+ \frac14 \, a \, \mathbf{\hat{z}}& \left(8c\right) & \text{Co} \\ \mathbf{B}_{4} & = &\frac12 \, \mathbf{a}_{1}& = &\frac34 \, a \, \mathbf{\hat{x}}+ \frac14 \, a \, \mathbf{\hat{y}}+ \frac14 \, a \, \mathbf{\hat{z}}& \left(8c\right) & \text{Co} \\ \mathbf{B}_{5} & = &\left(y_{2} + z_{2}\right) \, \mathbf{a}_{1}+ z_{2} \, \mathbf{a}_{2}+ y_{2} \, \mathbf{a}_{3}& = &y_{2} \, a \, \mathbf{\hat{y}}+ z_{2} \, a \, \mathbf{\hat{z}}& \left(24g\right) & \text{As} \\ \mathbf{B}_{6} & = &\left(z_{2} - y_{2}\right) \, \mathbf{a}_{1}+ z_{2} \, \mathbf{a}_{2}- y_{2} \, \mathbf{a}_{3}& = &- y_{2} \, a \, \mathbf{\hat{y}}+ z_{2} \, a \, \mathbf{\hat{z}}& \left(24g\right) & \text{As} \\ \mathbf{B}_{7} & = &\left(y_{2} - z_{2}\right) \, \mathbf{a}_{1}- z_{2} \, \mathbf{a}_{2}+ y_{2} \, \mathbf{a}_{3}& = &y_{2} \, a \, \mathbf{\hat{y}}- z_{2} \, a \, \mathbf{\hat{z}}& \left(24g\right) & \text{As} \\ \mathbf{B}_{8} & = &- \left(y_{2} + z_{2}\right) \, \mathbf{a}_{1}- z_{2} \, \mathbf{a}_{2}- y_{2} \, \mathbf{a}_{3}& = &- y_{2} \, a \, \mathbf{\hat{y}}- z_{2} \, a \, \mathbf{\hat{z}}& \left(24g\right) & \text{As} \\ \mathbf{B}_{9} & = &y_{2} \, \mathbf{a}_{1}+ \left(y_{2} + z_{2}\right) \, \mathbf{a}_{2}+ z_{2} \, \mathbf{a}_{3}& = &z_{2} \, a \, \mathbf{\hat{x}}+ y_{2} \, a \, \mathbf{\hat{z}}& \left(24g\right) & \text{As} \\ \mathbf{B}_{10} & = &- y_{2} \, \mathbf{a}_{1}+ \left(z_{2} - y_{2}\right) \, \mathbf{a}_{2}+ z_{2} \, \mathbf{a}_{3}& = &z_{2} \, a \, \mathbf{\hat{x}}- y_{2} \, a \, \mathbf{\hat{z}}& \left(24g\right) & \text{As} \\ \mathbf{B}_{11} & = &y_{2} \, \mathbf{a}_{1}+ \left(y_{2} - z_{2}\right) \, \mathbf{a}_{2}- z_{2} \, \mathbf{a}_{3}& = &- z_{2} \, a \, \mathbf{\hat{x}}+ y_{2} \, a \, \mathbf{\hat{z}}& \left(24g\right) & \text{As} \\ \mathbf{B}_{12} & = &- y_{2} \, \mathbf{a}_{1}- \left(y_{2} + z_{2}\right) \, \mathbf{a}_{2}- z_{2} \, \mathbf{a}_{3}& = &- z_{2} \, a \, \mathbf{\hat{x}}- y_{2} \, a \, \mathbf{\hat{z}}& \left(24g\right) & \text{As} \\ \mathbf{B}_{13} & = &z_{2} \, \mathbf{a}_{1}+ y_{2} \, \mathbf{a}_{2}+ \left(y_{2} + z_{2}\right) \, \mathbf{a}_{3}& = &y_{2} \, a \, \mathbf{\hat{x}}+ z_{2} \, a \, \mathbf{\hat{y}}& \left(24g\right) & \text{As} \\ \mathbf{B}_{14} & = &z_{2} \, \mathbf{a}_{1}- y_{2} \, \mathbf{a}_{2}+ \left(z_{2} - y_{2}\right) \, \mathbf{a}_{3}& = &- y_{2} \, a \, \mathbf{\hat{x}}+ z_{2} \, a \, \mathbf{\hat{y}}& \left(24g\right) & \text{As} \\ \mathbf{B}_{15} & = &- z_{2} \, \mathbf{a}_{1}+ y_{2} \, \mathbf{a}_{2}+ \left(y_{2} - z_{2}\right) \, \mathbf{a}_{3}& = &y_{2} \, a \, \mathbf{\hat{x}}- z_{2} \, a \, \mathbf{\hat{y}}& \left(24g\right) & \text{As} \\ \mathbf{B}_{16} & = &- z_{2} \, \mathbf{a}_{1}- y_{2} \, \mathbf{a}_{2}- \left(y_{2} + z_{2}\right) \, \mathbf{a}_{3}& = &- y_{2} \, a \, \mathbf{\hat{x}}- z_{2} \, a \, \mathbf{\hat{y}}& \left(24g\right) & \text{As} \\ \end{array} \]

References

  • N. Mandel and J. Donohue, The refinement of the crystal structure of skutterudite, CoAs3, Acta Crystallogr. Sect. B Struct. Sci. 27, 2288–2289 (1971), doi:10.1107/S0567740871005727.

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