Encyclopedia of Crystallographic Prototypes

AFLOW Prototype: AB2CD_oC20_63_b_f_c_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)

ThFe2SiC Structure : AB2CD_oC20_63_b_f_c_c

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Prototype : CFe2SiTh
AFLOW prototype label : AB2CD_oC20_63_b_f_c_c
Strukturbericht designation : None
Pearson symbol : oC20
Space group number : 63
Space group symbol : $Cmcm$
AFLOW prototype command : aflow --proto=AB2CD_oC20_63_b_f_c_c
--params=
$a$,$b/a$,$c/a$,$y_{2}$,$y_{3}$,$y_{4}$,$z_{4}$


Other compounds with this structure

  • $A$Fe2SiC, ($A$ = Y, Sm, Gd, Tb, Ho, Er, Tm, Lu, U)

  • This structure is a filled version of the Re3B structure, with carbon atoms sitting in the ($4b$) Wyckoff positions. This is the quaternary version of the structure. The ternary version, where one of the ($4c$) Wyckoff positions has the same atom type as the ($8f$) site, is designated the V3AsC structure.
  • (Witte, 1994) does not designate a prototype for this structure, but as they only give full crystallographic data for the ThFe2SiC structure we will use this as the prototype.
  • (Witte, 1994) lists the occupation of each site as Th (100.2%), Fe (97.7%), Si (96.0%), and C (97.0%), indicating that there are vacancies on the Fe, Si, and C sites, and that some of the Th atoms are either interstitial or occuping the other ($4c$) site or the ($8f$) site.

Base-centered Orthorhombic primitive vectors:

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

Basis vectors:

\[ \begin{array}{ccccccc} & & \text{Lattice Coordinates} & & \text{Cartesian Coordinates} &\text{Wyckoff Position} & \text{Atom Type} \\ \mathbf{B}_{1} & = & \frac{1}{2} \, \mathbf{a}_{1} + \frac{1}{2} \, \mathbf{a}_{2} & = & \frac{1}{2}a \, \mathbf{\hat{x}} & \left(4b\right) & \text{C} \\ \mathbf{B}_{2} & = & \frac{1}{2} \, \mathbf{a}_{1} + \frac{1}{2} \, \mathbf{a}_{2} + \frac{1}{2} \, \mathbf{a}_{3} & = & \frac{1}{2}a \, \mathbf{\hat{x}} + \frac{1}{2}c \, \mathbf{\hat{z}} & \left(4b\right) & \text{C} \\ \mathbf{B}_{3} & = & -y_{2} \, \mathbf{a}_{1} + y_{2} \, \mathbf{a}_{2} + \frac{1}{4} \, \mathbf{a}_{3} & = & y_{2}b \, \mathbf{\hat{y}} + \frac{1}{4}c \, \mathbf{\hat{z}} & \left(4c\right) & \text{Si} \\ \mathbf{B}_{4} & = & y_{2} \, \mathbf{a}_{1}-y_{2} \, \mathbf{a}_{2} + \frac{3}{4} \, \mathbf{a}_{3} & = & -y_{2}b \, \mathbf{\hat{y}} + \frac{3}{4}c \, \mathbf{\hat{z}} & \left(4c\right) & \text{Si} \\ \mathbf{B}_{5} & = & -y_{3} \, \mathbf{a}_{1} + y_{3} \, \mathbf{a}_{2} + \frac{1}{4} \, \mathbf{a}_{3} & = & y_{3}b \, \mathbf{\hat{y}} + \frac{1}{4}c \, \mathbf{\hat{z}} & \left(4c\right) & \text{Th} \\ \mathbf{B}_{6} & = & y_{3} \, \mathbf{a}_{1}-y_{3} \, \mathbf{a}_{2} + \frac{3}{4} \, \mathbf{a}_{3} & = & -y_{3}b \, \mathbf{\hat{y}} + \frac{3}{4}c \, \mathbf{\hat{z}} & \left(4c\right) & \text{Th} \\ \mathbf{B}_{7} & = & -y_{4} \, \mathbf{a}_{1} + y_{4} \, \mathbf{a}_{2} + z_{4} \, \mathbf{a}_{3} & = & y_{4}b \, \mathbf{\hat{y}} + z_{4}c \, \mathbf{\hat{z}} & \left(8f\right) & \text{Fe} \\ \mathbf{B}_{8} & = & y_{4} \, \mathbf{a}_{1}-y_{4} \, \mathbf{a}_{2} + \left(\frac{1}{2} +z_{4}\right) \, \mathbf{a}_{3} & = & -y_{4}b \, \mathbf{\hat{y}} + \left(\frac{1}{2} +z_{4}\right)c \, \mathbf{\hat{z}} & \left(8f\right) & \text{Fe} \\ \mathbf{B}_{9} & = & -y_{4} \, \mathbf{a}_{1} + y_{4} \, \mathbf{a}_{2} + \left(\frac{1}{2} - z_{4}\right) \, \mathbf{a}_{3} & = & y_{4}b \, \mathbf{\hat{y}} + \left(\frac{1}{2}-z_{4}\right)c \, \mathbf{\hat{z}} & \left(8f\right) & \text{Fe} \\ \mathbf{B}_{10} & = & y_{4} \, \mathbf{a}_{1}-y_{4} \, \mathbf{a}_{2}-z_{4} \, \mathbf{a}_{3} & = & -y_{4}b \, \mathbf{\hat{y}}-z_{4}c \, \mathbf{\hat{z}} & \left(8f\right) & \text{Fe} \\ \end{array} \]

References

  • A. M. Witte and W. Jeitschko, Carbides with Filled Re3B–Type Structure, J. Solid State Chem. 112, 232–236 (1994), doi:10.1006/jssc.1994.1297.

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