Encyclopedia of Crystallographic Prototypes

AFLOW Prototype: AB_cP6_221_c_d-001

This structure originally had the label AB_cP6_221_c_d. Calls to that address will be redirected here.

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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)

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NbO Structure: AB_cP6_221_c_d-001

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Prototype NbO
AFLOW prototype label AB_cP6_221_c_d-001
ICSD 14338
Pearson symbol cP6
Space group number 221
Space group symbol $Pm\overline{3}m$
AFLOW prototype command aflow --proto=AB_cP6_221_c_d-001
--params=$a$

Other compounds with this structure

NaS,  KS


  • This is the NaCl ($B1$) structure with 25% ordered vacancies on both the Na and Cl sites.
  • At times we incorrectly referred to this structure as NaO.

\[ \begin{array}{ccc} \mathbf{a_{1}}&=&a \,\mathbf{\hat{x}}\\\mathbf{a_{2}}&=&a \,\mathbf{\hat{y}}\\\mathbf{a_{3}}&=&a \,\mathbf{\hat{z}} \end{array}\]

Basis vectors

Lattice coordinates Cartesian coordinates Wyckoff position Atom type
$\mathbf{B_{1}}$ = $\frac{1}{2} \, \mathbf{a}_{2}+\frac{1}{2} \, \mathbf{a}_{3}$ = $\frac{1}{2}a \,\mathbf{\hat{y}}+\frac{1}{2}a \,\mathbf{\hat{z}}$ (3c) Nb I
$\mathbf{B_{2}}$ = $\frac{1}{2} \, \mathbf{a}_{1}+\frac{1}{2} \, \mathbf{a}_{3}$ = $\frac{1}{2}a \,\mathbf{\hat{x}}+\frac{1}{2}a \,\mathbf{\hat{z}}$ (3c) Nb I
$\mathbf{B_{3}}$ = $\frac{1}{2} \, \mathbf{a}_{1}+\frac{1}{2} \, \mathbf{a}_{2}$ = $\frac{1}{2}a \,\mathbf{\hat{x}}+\frac{1}{2}a \,\mathbf{\hat{y}}$ (3c) Nb I
$\mathbf{B_{4}}$ = $\frac{1}{2} \, \mathbf{a}_{1}$ = $\frac{1}{2}a \,\mathbf{\hat{x}}$ (3d) O I
$\mathbf{B_{5}}$ = $\frac{1}{2} \, \mathbf{a}_{2}$ = $\frac{1}{2}a \,\mathbf{\hat{y}}$ (3d) O I
$\mathbf{B_{6}}$ = $\frac{1}{2} \, \mathbf{a}_{3}$ = $\frac{1}{2}a \,\mathbf{\hat{z}}$ (3d) O I

References

  • A. L. Bowman, T. C. Wallace, J. L. Yarnell, and R. G. Wenzel, The crystal structure of niobium monoxide, Acta Cryst. 21, 843 (1966), doi:10.1107/S0365110X66004043.

Found in

  • P. Villars and L. Calvert, Pearson's Handbook of Crystallographic Data for Intermetallic Phases (ASM International, Materials Park, OH, 1991), 2nd edn.

Prototype Generator

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