Encyclopedia of Crystallographic Prototypes

AFLOW Prototype: AB2_tI6_139_a_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)
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  • 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)

MoSi2 ($C11_{b}$) Structure: AB2_tI6_139_a_e

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Prototype : MoSi2
AFLOW prototype label : AB2_tI6_139_a_e
Strukturbericht designation : $C11_{b}$
Pearson symbol : tI6
Space group number : 139
Space group symbol : $\text{I4/mmm}$
AFLOW prototype command : aflow --proto=AB2_tI6_139_a_e
--params=
$a$,$c/a$,$z_{2}$


Other compounds with this structure

  • CaC2, CdTi2

  • When $c=3a$ and $z_{2}=1/3$ the atoms are on the sites of a body-centered cubic lattice. For MoSi2 itself, (Harada, 1998) gives $c/a = 2.45$ and $z_{2}=0.3353$. Other compounds in this structure have very different values of $c/a$ and even $z_{2}$.

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:

\[ \begin{array}{ccccccc} & & \text{Lattice Coordinates} & & \text{Cartesian Coordinates} &\text{Wyckoff Position} & \text{Atom Type} \\ \mathbf{B}_{1} & = & 0 \, \mathbf{a}_{1} + 0 \, \mathbf{a}_{2} + 0 \, \mathbf{a}_{3} & = & 0 \mathbf{\hat{x}} + 0 \mathbf{\hat{y}} + 0 \mathbf{\hat{z}} & \left(2a\right) & \text{Mo} \\ \mathbf{B}_{2} & =& z_{2} \, \mathbf{a}_{1} + z_{2} \, \mathbf{a}_{2}& =& z_{2} \, c \, \mathbf{\hat{z}}& \left(4e\right) & \text{Si} \\ \mathbf{B}_{3} & =& - z_{2} \, \mathbf{a}_{1} - z_{2} \, \mathbf{a}_{2}& =& - z_{2} \, c \, \mathbf{\hat{z}}& \left(4e\right) & \text{Si} \\ \end{array} \]

References

  • Y. Harada, M. Morinaga, D. Saso, M. Takata, and M. Sakata, Refinement of crystal structure in MoSi2, Intermetallics 6, 523–527 (1998), doi:10.1016/S0966-9795(97)00102-7.

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