Encyclopedia of Crystallographic Prototypes

AFLOW Prototype: A_tI4_141_a

  • 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)

$\beta$–Sn ($A5$) Structure: A_tI4_141_a

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Prototype : $\beta$–Sn
AFLOW prototype label : A_tI4_141_a
Strukturbericht designation : $A5$
Pearson symbol : tI4
Space group number : 141
Space group symbol : $\text{I4}_{1}\text{/amd}$
AFLOW prototype command : aflow --proto=A_tI4_141_a
--params=
$a$,$c/a$


  • When $c/a = \sqrt2$ this structure is equivalent to diamond (A4).

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:

\[ \begin{array}{ccccccc} & & \text{Lattice Coordinates} & & \text{Cartesian Coordinates} &\text{Wyckoff Position} & \text{Atom Type} \\ \mathbf{B}_{1} & =&\frac78 \, \mathbf{a}_{1}+ \frac18 \, \mathbf{a}_{2}+ \frac34 \, \mathbf{a}_{3}& =&\frac34 \, a \, \mathbf{\hat{y}}+ \frac18 \, c \, \mathbf{\hat{z}}& \left(4a\right) & \text{Sn} \\ \mathbf{B}_{2} & =&\frac18 \, \mathbf{a}_{1}+ \frac78 \, \mathbf{a}_{2}+ \frac14 \, \mathbf{a}_{3}& =&\frac12 \, a \, \mathbf{\hat{x}}+ \frac34 \, a \, \mathbf{\hat{y}}+ \frac38 \, c \, \mathbf{\hat{z}}& \left(4a\right) & \text{Sn} \\ \end{array} \]

References

Found in

  • M. Winter, WebElements: the periodic table on the WWW (1993–2015). The University of Sheffield and WebElements Ltd.

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