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SrCuO₂

Orthorhombic · space group Cmcm (No. 63) · Pearson oC16

Symmetry elements and Wyckoff positions (interactive)

SrCuO₂ in Cmcm

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

Unit cell

Lattice constants
a = 3.577 Å, b = 16.342 Å, c = 3.918 Å; α = 90.00°, β = 90.00°, γ = 90.00°
Cell volume
229.0 ų
Atoms in the conventional cell
16 (Cu 4, O 8, Sr 4)
Formula units Z
4
Pearson symbol
oC16 — orthorhombic, base-centred lattice, 16 atoms per conventional cell
Symmetry operations
16 per cell

Crystallographic sites

SiteElementWyckoffMultiplicityxyz
Cu1Cu4c40.00000.06110.2500
O2O4c40.00000.94420.2500
O3O4c40.00000.17920.2500
Sr4Sr4c40.00000.33100.2500

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 16 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

AB2C_oC16_63_c_2c_c-001: the stoichiometry comes first (A, B, C… are the elements in alphabetical order of their site labels), then the Pearson symbol oC16, then the space-group number 63, then the Wyckoff letters occupied by each element in turn (Cu: 4c; O: 4c; O: 4c; Sr: 4c). Two structures with the same label are the same arrangement with different cell parameters or coordinates.

Other compounds with this structure

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Source

Coordinates and cell from the AFLOW Encyclopedia of Crystallographic Prototypes, entry AB2C_oC16_63_c_2c_c-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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