Encyclopedia of Crystallographic Prototypes

AFLOW Prototype: A_tI4_139_e

  • 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)

Hypothetical BCT5 Si Structure: A_tI4_139_e

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Prototype : Si
AFLOW prototype label : A_tI4_139_e
Strukturbericht designation : None
Pearson symbol : tI4
Space group number : 139
Space group symbol : $\text{I4/mmm}$
AFLOW prototype command : aflow --proto=A_tI4_139_e
--params=
$a$,$c/a$,$z_{1}$


  • The bct5 structure is a tetragonal analog of the diamond (A4) structure, with 5-fold coordination. It was proposed in (Boyer, 1991) as a low energy, metastable phase of silicon, based on first-principles calculations and model potentials. To the best of our knowledge, this has not been observed experimentally. A search of Pearson's Handbook does not show any compound with this structure.

Body-centered Tetragonal primitive vectors:

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

Basis vectors:

\[ \begin{array}{ccccccc} & & \text{Lattice Coordinates} & & \text{Cartesian Coordinates} &\text{Wyckoff Position} & \text{Atom Type} \\ \mathbf{B}_{1} & =&z_{1} \, \mathbf{a}_{1}+ z_{1} \, \mathbf{a}_{2}& =&+ z_{1} \, c \, \mathbf{\hat{z}}& \left(4e\right) & \text{Si} \\ \mathbf{B}_{2} & =&- z_{1} \, \mathbf{a}_{1}- z_{1} \, \mathbf{a}_{2}& =&- z_{1} \, c \, \mathbf{\hat{z}}& \left(4e\right) & \text{Si} \\ \end{array} \]

References

  • L. L. Boyer, E. Kaxiras, J. L. Feldman, J. Q. Broughton, and M. J. Mehl, New low–energy crystal structure for silicon, Phys. Rev. Lett. 67, 715–718 (1991), doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.67.715.

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