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DyAl

Orthorhombic · space group Pbcm (No. 57) · Pearson oP16

Symmetry elements and Wyckoff positions (interactive)

DyAl in Pbcm

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

Unit cell

Lattice constants
a = 5.822 Å, b = 11.369 Å, c = 5.604 Å; α = 90.00°, β = 90.00°, γ = 90.00°
Cell volume
370.9 ų
Atoms in the conventional cell
16 (Al 8, Dy 8)
Formula units Z
8
Pearson symbol
oP16 — orthorhombic, primitive lattice, 16 atoms per conventional cell
Symmetry operations
8 per cell

Crystallographic sites

SiteElementWyckoffMultiplicityxyz
Al1Al4c40.93090.25000.0000
Al2Al4d40.66800.10220.2500
Dy3Dy4d40.16040.01480.2500
Dy4Dy4d40.40150.33920.2500

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 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_oP16_57_cd_2d-001: the stoichiometry comes first (A, B, C… are the elements in alphabetical order of their site labels), then the Pearson symbol oP16, then the space-group number 57, then the Wyckoff letters occupied by each element in turn (Al: 4c; Al: 4d; Dy: 4d; Dy: 4d). Two structures with the same label are the same arrangement with different cell parameters or coordinates.

Other compounds with this structure

ErAl, GdAl, HoAl, PrAl, SmAl, TbAl, TmAl <!--beginning with an

Source

Coordinates and cell from the AFLOW Encyclopedia of Crystallographic Prototypes, entry AB_oP16_57_cd_2d-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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