Skip to content

Crystal Lab › Prototype structures › Orthorhombic

E3₂ (CaB₂O₄ I)

Orthorhombic · space group Pbcn (No. 60) · Pearson oP28 · Strukturbericht E32

Symmetry elements and Wyckoff positions (interactive)

E3₂ (CaB₂O₄ I) in Pbcn

Setting
Loading the group…
x = 0.10, y = 0.17, z = 0.08

Unit cell

Lattice constants
a = 11.604 Å, b = 4.285 Å, c = 6.214 Å; α = 90.00°, β = 90.00°, γ = 90.00°
Cell volume
309.0 ų
Atoms in the conventional cell
28 (Ca 4, B 8, O 16)
Formula units Z
4
Pearson symbol
oP28 — orthorhombic, primitive lattice, 28 atoms per conventional cell
Symmetry operations
8 per cell

Crystallographic sites

SiteElementWyckoffMultiplicityxyz
Ca2Ca4c40.00000.27260.2500
B1B8d80.19240.82960.1258
O3O8d80.08620.72680.0917
O4O8d80.20780.14850.1478

The multiplicity and the Wyckoff letter say how many copies of the site the group makes in one cell and on which kind of symmetry element the site sits; the 28 atoms drawn above are these sites multiplied by all 8 operations. Press Wyckoff under Colour to see the sites, and tick a symmetry element on the left to see which atoms lie on it.

How to read the label

A2BC4_oP28_60_d_c_2d-001: the stoichiometry comes first (A, B, C… are the elements in alphabetical order of their site labels), then the Pearson symbol oP28, then the space-group number 60, then the Wyckoff letters occupied by each element in turn (Ca: 4c; B: 8d; O: 8d; O: 8d). Two structures with the same label are the same arrangement with different cell parameters or coordinates.

Other compounds with this structure

EuB₂O₄, SrB₂O₄ <!--beginning with an

Note: E3₂.

Source

Coordinates and cell from the AFLOW Encyclopedia of Crystallographic Prototypes, entry A2BC4_oP28_60_d_c_2d-001 (M. J. Mehl et al., Comput. Mater. Sci. 136, S1 (2017); D. Hicks et al., ibid. 161, S1 (2019) and 199, 110450 (2021); S. Eckert et al., ibid. 240, 112988 (2024)). Symmetry elements, Wyckoff assignment and the diagram are computed on this page from the group operations.

← Rh₂O₃  ·  Space group Pbcn (11 prototypes)  ·  All prototypes  ·  α-Li₃PS₄ →