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High-pressure CdTe
Orthorhombic · space group Pmm2 (No. 25) · Pearson oP2
Symmetry elements and Wyckoff positions (interactive)
High-pressure CdTe in Pmm2
SettingUnit cell
- Lattice constants
- a = 2.810 Å, b = 5.258 Å, c = 3.026 Å; α = 90.00°, β = 90.00°, γ = 90.00°
- Cell volume
- 44.7 ų
- Atoms in the conventional cell
- 2 (Cd 1, Te 1)
- Formula units Z
- 1
- Pearson symbol
- oP2 — orthorhombic, primitive lattice, 2 atoms per conventional cell
- Symmetry operations
- 4 per cell
Crystallographic sites
| Site | Element | Wyckoff | Multiplicity | x | y | z |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cd1 | Cd | 1a | 1 | 0.0000 | 0.0000 | 0.2500 |
| Te2 | Te | 1b | 1 | 0.0000 | 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 2 atoms drawn above are these sites multiplied by all 4 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_oP2_25_a_b-001: the stoichiometry comes first (A, B, C… are the elements in alphabetical order of their site labels), then the Pearson symbol oP2, then the space-group number 25, then the Wyckoff letters occupied by each element in turn (Cd: 1a; Te: 1b). Two structures with the same label are the same arrangement with different cell parameters or coordinates.
Other compounds with this structure
GaAs (HP) <!--beginning with an
Note: 19.3 GPa.
Source
Coordinates and cell from the AFLOW Encyclopedia of Crystallographic Prototypes, entry AB_oP2_25_a_b-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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