Encyclopedia of Crystallographic Prototypes

AFLOW Prototype: AB_oI4_44_a_b

  • 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)

High–pressure GaAs Structure: AB_oI4_44_a_b

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Prototype : GaAs
AFLOW prototype label : AB_oI4_44_a_b
Strukturbericht designation : None
Pearson symbol : oI4
Space group number : 44
Space group symbol : $\text{Imm2}$
AFLOW prototype command : aflow --proto=AB_oI4_44_a_b
--params=
$a$,$b/a$,$c/a$,$z_{1}$,$z_{2}$


  • This is a high-pressure phase of GaAs, stable above 24 GPa. The experimental data used here was taken at a pressure of 28.1 GPa. Without loss of generality we can take $z_{1}=0$. When $a=b$ and $z_{2}=z_{1}+1/4$ this structure becomes the $\beta$–Sn (A5) structure.

Body-centered Orthorhombic primitive vectors:

\[ \begin{array}{ccc} \mathbf{a}_1 & = & - \frac12 \, a \, \mathbf{\hat{x}} + \frac12 \, b \, \mathbf{\hat{y}} + \frac12 \, c \, \mathbf{\hat{z}} \\ \mathbf{a}_2 & = & ~ \frac12 \, a \, \mathbf{\hat{x}} - \frac12 \, b \, \mathbf{\hat{y}} + \frac12 \, c \, \mathbf{\hat{z}} \\ \mathbf{a}_3 & = & ~ \frac12 \, a \, \mathbf{\hat{x}} + \frac12 \, b \, \mathbf{\hat{y}} - \frac12 \, c \, \mathbf{\hat{z}} \\ \end{array} \]

Basis vectors:

\[ \begin{array}{ccccccc} & & \text{Lattice Coordinates} & & \text{Cartesian Coordinates} &\text{Wyckoff Position} & \text{Atom Type} \\ \mathbf{B}_{1} & =& z_{1} \, \mathbf{a}_{1} + z_{1} \, \mathbf{a}_{2}& =& z_{1} \, c \, \mathbf{\hat{z}}& \left(2a\right) & \text{As} \\ \mathbf{B}_{2} & =& \left(\frac12 + z_{2}\right) \, \mathbf{a}_{1}+ z_{2} \, \mathbf{a}_{2}+ \frac12 \, \mathbf{a}_{3}& =& \frac12 \, b \, \mathbf{\hat{y}}+ z_{2} \, c \, \mathbf{\hat{z}}& \left(2b\right) & \text{Ga} \\ \end{array} \]

References

  • S. T. Weir, Y. K. Vohra, C. A. Vanderborgh, and A. L. Ruoff, Structural phase transitions in GaAs to 108 GPa, Phys. Rev. B 39, 1280–1285 (1989), doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.39.1280.

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. 1135.

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