Encyclopedia of Crystallographic Prototypes

AFLOW Prototype: AB_oF8_22_a_c-001

This structure originally had the label AB_oF8_22_a_c. Calls to that address will be redirected here.

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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)

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Low temperature FeS Structure: AB_oF8_22_a_c-001

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Prototype FeS
AFLOW prototype label AB_oF8_22_a_c-001
ICSD none
Pearson symbol oF8
Space group number 22
Space group symbol $F222$
AFLOW prototype command aflow --proto=AB_oF8_22_a_c-001
--params=$a, \allowbreak b/a, \allowbreak c/a$

  • This is the stable structure of iron sulfide below 242K. Above that temperature it is in the zincblende ($B3$) structure. (Wintenberger, 1978).
  • This data was taken at 81K. We follow (Villars, 2016) and rearrange the axis, as well as reversing the positions of the iron and sulfur atoms.

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

Basis vectors

Lattice coordinates Cartesian coordinates Wyckoff position Atom type
$\mathbf{B_{1}}$ = $0$ = $0$ (4a) Fe I
$\mathbf{B_{2}}$ = $\frac{1}{4} \, \mathbf{a}_{1}+\frac{1}{4} \, \mathbf{a}_{2}+\frac{1}{4} \, \mathbf{a}_{3}$ = $\frac{1}{4}a \,\mathbf{\hat{x}}+\frac{1}{4}b \,\mathbf{\hat{y}}+\frac{1}{4}c \,\mathbf{\hat{z}}$ (4c) S I

References

  • M. Wintenberger and J. L. Buevoz, Structure magnetique du sulfure de fer FeS de type blende, Solid State Commun. 27, 511–513 (1978), doi:10.1016/0038-1098(78)90383-6.

Found in

  • P. Villars, FeS Crystal Structure (2016). PAULING FILE in: Inorganic Solid Phases, SpringerMaterials (online database).

Prototype Generator

aflow --proto=AB_oF8_22_a_c --params=$a,b/a,c/a$

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