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Orthorhombic Bi₄Ti₃O₁₂ m = 3 Aurivillius Structure ( Obsolete ): A4B12C3_oC76_41_2b_6b_ab-001

Orthorhombic · space group Aea2 (No. 41) · Pearson oC76

Symmetry elements and Wyckoff positions (interactive)

Orthorhombic Bi₄Ti₃O₁₂ m = 3 Aurivillius Structure ( Obsolete ): A4B12C3_oC76_41_2b_6b_ab-001 in Aea2

Setting
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x = 0.10, y = 0.17, z = 0.08

Unit cell

Lattice constants
a = 5.411 Å, b = 32.830 Å, c = 5.448 Å; α = 90.00°, β = 90.00°, γ = 90.00°
Cell volume
967.8 ų
Atoms in the conventional cell
76 (Ti 12, Bi 16, O 48)
Formula units Z
4
Pearson symbol
oC76 — orthorhombic, base-centred lattice, 76 atoms per conventional cell
Symmetry operations
8 per cell

Crystallographic sites

SiteElementWyckoffMultiplicityxyz
Ti9Ti4a40.00000.00000.9548
Bi1Bi8b80.99780.43320.0000
Bi2Bi8b80.01990.28870.0009
O3O8b80.22200.00330.2930
O4O8b80.25200.24990.7360
O5O8b80.97500.05960.9270
O6O8b80.92600.18150.0400
O7O8b80.28500.37850.7060
O8O8b80.20000.13100.3410
Ti10Ti8b80.99900.12860.9467

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 76 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

A4B12C3_oC76_41_2b_6b_ab-001: the stoichiometry comes first (A, B, C… are the elements in alphabetical order of their site labels), then the Pearson symbol oC76, then the space-group number 41, then the Wyckoff letters occupied by each element in turn (Ti: 4a; Bi: 8b; Bi: 8b; O: 8b; O: 8b; O: 8b; O: 8b; O: 8b; O: 8b; Ti: 8b). Two structures with the same label are the same arrangement with different cell parameters or coordinates.

Note: m = 3 Aurivillius (Obsolete).

Source

Coordinates and cell from the AFLOW Encyclopedia of Crystallographic Prototypes, entry A4B12C3_oC76_41_2b_6b_ab-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.

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