Encyclopedia of Crystallographic Prototypes

AFLOW Prototype: AB4_cP5_215_a_e

  • M. J. Mehl, D. Hicks, C. Toher, O. Levy, R. M. Hanson, G. L. W. Hart, and S. Curtarolo, The AFLOW Library of Crystallographic Prototypes: Part 1, Comp. Mat. Sci. 136, S1-S828 (2017). (doi=10.1016/j.commatsci.2017.01.017)
  • D. Hicks, M. J. Mehl, E. Gossett, C. Toher, O. Levy, R. M. Hanson, G. L. W. Hart, and S. Curtarolo, The AFLOW Library of Crystallographic Prototypes: Part 2, Comp. Mat. Sci. 161, S1-S1011 (2019). (doi=10.1016/j.commatsci.2018.10.043)
  • D. Hicks, M.J. Mehl, M. Esters, C. Oses, O. Levy, G.L.W. Hart, C. Toher, and S. Curtarolo, The AFLOW Library of Crystallographic Prototypes: Part 3, Comp. Mat. Sci. 199, 110450 (2021). (doi=10.1016/j.commatsci.2021.110450)

Fe4C Structure: AB4_cP5_215_a_e

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Prototype : Fe4C
AFLOW prototype label : AB4_cP5_215_a_e
Strukturbericht designation : None
Pearson symbol : cP5
Space group number : 215
Space group symbol : $\text{P}\bar{4}\text{3m}$
AFLOW prototype command : aflow --proto=AB4_cP5_215_a_e
--params=
$a$,$x_{2}$


  • When $x_{2} = 1/4$, the iron atoms are at the positions of the face-centered cubic lattice. In Fe4C, $x_{2}$ is about 0.265.

Simple Cubic primitive vectors:

\[ \begin{array}{ccc} \mathbf{a}_1 & = & a \, \mathbf{\hat{x}} \\ \mathbf{a}_2 & = & a \, \mathbf{\hat{y}} \\ \mathbf{a}_3 & = & a \, \mathbf{\hat{z}} \end{array} \]

Basis vectors:

\[ \begin{array}{ccccccc} & & \text{Lattice Coordinates} & & \text{Cartesian Coordinates} &\text{Wyckoff Position} & \text{Atom Type} \\ \mathbf{B}_{1} & = &0 \, \mathbf{a}_{1} + 0 \, \mathbf{a}_{2} + 0 \, \mathbf{a}_{3} & = &0 \mathbf{\hat{x}} + 0 \mathbf{\hat{y}} + 0 \mathbf{\hat{z}} & \left(1a\right) & \text{C} \\ \mathbf{B}_{2} & = &x_{2} \, \mathbf{a}_{1}+ x_{2} \, \mathbf{a}_{2}+ x_{2} \, \mathbf{a}_{3}& = &x_{2} \, a \, \mathbf{\hat{x}}+ x_{2} \, a \, \mathbf{\hat{y}}+ x_{2} \, a \, \mathbf{\hat{z}}& \left(4e\right) & \text{Fe} \\ \mathbf{B}_{3} & = &- x_{2} \, \mathbf{a}_{1}- x_{2} \, \mathbf{a}_{2}+ x_{2} \, \mathbf{a}_{3}& = &- x_{2} \, a \, \mathbf{\hat{x}}- x_{2} \, a \, \mathbf{\hat{y}}+ x_{2} \, a \, \mathbf{\hat{z}}& \left(4e\right) & \text{Fe} \\ \mathbf{B}_{4} & = &- x_{2} \, \mathbf{a}_{1}+ x_{2} \, \mathbf{a}_{2}- x_{2} \, \mathbf{a}_{3}& = &- x_{2} \, a \, \mathbf{\hat{x}}+ x_{2} \, a \, \mathbf{\hat{y}}- x_{2} \, a \, \mathbf{\hat{z}}& \left(4e\right) & \text{Fe} \\ \mathbf{B}_{5} & = &x_{2} \, \mathbf{a}_{1}- x_{2} \, \mathbf{a}_{2}- x_{2} \, \mathbf{a}_{3}& = &x_{2} \, a \, \mathbf{\hat{x}}- x_{2} \, a \, \mathbf{\hat{y}}- x_{2} \, a \, \mathbf{\hat{z}}& \left(4e\right) & \text{Fe} \\ \end{array} \]

References

  • Z. G. Pinsker and S. V. Kaverin, Electron–Diffraction Determination of the Structure of Iron Carbide Fe4C, Soviet Physics–Crystallography, translated from Kristallografiya 1, 48–53 (1956).

Found in

  • P. Villars and L. Calvert, Pearson's Handbook of Crystallographic Data for Intermetallic Phases (ASM International, Materials Park, OH, 1991), 2nd edn., pp. 1895.

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