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CaFe₃O₅
Orthorhombic · space group Cmcm (No. 63) · Pearson oC36
Symmetry elements and Wyckoff positions (interactive)
CaFe₃O₅ in Cmcm
SettingUnit cell
- Lattice constants
- a = 3.021 Å, b = 10.009 Å, c = 12.643 Å; α = 90.00°, β = 90.00°, γ = 90.00°
- Cell volume
- 382.3 ų
- Atoms in the conventional cell
- 36 (Fe 12, Ca 4, O 20)
- Formula units Z
- 4
- Pearson symbol
- oC36 — orthorhombic, base-centred lattice, 36 atoms per conventional cell
- Symmetry operations
- 16 per cell
Crystallographic sites
| Site | Element | Wyckoff | Multiplicity | x | y | z |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fe2 | Fe | 4a | 4 | 0.0000 | 0.0000 | 0.0000 |
| Ca1 | Ca | 4c | 4 | 0.0000 | 0.5200 | 0.2500 |
| O4 | O | 4c | 4 | 0.0000 | 0.1910 | 0.2500 |
| Fe3 | Fe | 8f | 8 | 0.0000 | 0.2664 | 0.1112 |
| O5 | O | 8f | 8 | 0.0000 | 0.6439 | 0.4484 |
| O6 | O | 8f | 8 | 0.0000 | 0.9048 | 0.1350 |
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 36 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
AB3C5_oC36_63_c_af_c2f-001: the stoichiometry comes first (A, B, C… are the elements in alphabetical order of their site labels), then the Pearson symbol oC36, then the space-group number 63, then the Wyckoff letters occupied by each element in turn (Fe: 4a; Ca: 4c; O: 4c; Fe: 8f; O: 8f; O: 8f). 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 AB3C5_oC36_63_c_af_c2f-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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