Skip to content

Crystal Lab › Prototype structures › Monoclinic

CoGe

Monoclinic · space group C12/m1 (No. 12) · Pearson mC16

Symmetry elements and Wyckoff positions (interactive)

CoGe in C12/m1

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

Unit cell

Lattice constants
a = 11.648 Å, b = 3.807 Å, c = 4.945 Å; α = 90.00°, β = 101.10°, γ = 90.00°
Cell volume
215.2 ų
Atoms in the conventional cell
16 (Co 8, Ge 8)
Formula units Z
8
Pearson symbol
mC16 — monoclinic, base-centred lattice, 16 atoms per conventional cell
Symmetry operations
8 per cell

Crystallographic sites

SiteElementWyckoffMultiplicityxyz
Co1Co2a20.00000.00000.0000
Co2Co2c20.00000.00000.5000
Co3Co4i40.20000.00000.3200
Ge4Ge4i40.18000.00000.8400
Ge5Ge4i40.43300.00000.7400

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 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

AB_mC16_12_aci_2i-001: the stoichiometry comes first (A, B, C… are the elements in alphabetical order of their site labels), then the Pearson symbol mC16, then the space-group number 12, then the Wyckoff letters occupied by each element in turn (Co: 2a; Co: 2c; Co: 4i; Ge: 4i; Ge: 4i). Two structures with the same label are the same arrangement with different cell parameters or coordinates.

Other compounds with this structure

FeGe (HT) <!--beginning with an

Source

Coordinates and cell from the AFLOW Encyclopedia of Crystallographic Prototypes, entry AB_mC16_12_aci_2i-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.

← γ-BiI  ·  Space group C12/m1 (79 prototypes)  ·  All prototypes  ·  CuAl →