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Li₂CuO₂
Orthorhombic · space group Immm (No. 71) · Pearson oI10
Symmetry elements and Wyckoff positions (interactive)
Li₂CuO₂ in Immm
SettingUnit cell
- Lattice constants
- a = 9.377 Å, b = 2.860 Å, c = 3.655 Å; α = 90.00°, β = 90.00°, γ = 90.00°
- Cell volume
- 98.0 ų
- Atoms in the conventional cell
- 10 (Cu 2, Li 4, O 4)
- Formula units Z
- 2
- Pearson symbol
- oI10 — orthorhombic, body-centred lattice, 10 atoms per conventional cell
- Symmetry operations
- 16 per cell
Crystallographic sites
| Site | Element | Wyckoff | Multiplicity | x | y | z |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cu1 | Cu | 2a | 2 | 0.0000 | 0.0000 | 0.0000 |
| Li2 | Li | 4e | 4 | 0.2869 | 0.0000 | 0.0000 |
| O3 | O | 4f | 4 | 0.8577 | 0.5000 | 0.0000 |
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 10 atoms drawn above are these sites multiplied by all 16 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
AB2C2_oI10_71_a_e_f-002: the stoichiometry comes first (A, B, C… are the elements in alphabetical order of their site labels), then the Pearson symbol oI10, then the space-group number 71, then the Wyckoff letters occupied by each element in turn (Cu: 2a; Li: 4e; O: 4f). Two structures with the same label are the same arrangement with different cell parameters or coordinates.
Source
Coordinates and cell from the AFLOW Encyclopedia of Crystallographic Prototypes, entry AB2C2_oI10_71_a_e_f-002 (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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