NbP ("40") Structure: AB_tI8_141_a_b
| Prototype | : | NbP |
| AFLOW prototype label | : | AB_tI8_141_a_b |
| Strukturbericht designation | : | $"40"$ |
| Pearson symbol | : | tI8 |
| Space group number | : | 141 |
| Space group symbol | : | $\mbox{I4}_{1}\mbox{/amd}$ |
| AFLOW prototype command | : | aflow --proto=AB_tI8_141_a_b --params=$a,c/a$ |
- When $c/a = 2$, the atoms in this lattice are on the sites of the face-centered cubic lattice. Thus (Lu, 1991) use this lattice for their structural stability studies, and arbitrarily assign this lattice a Strukturbericht designation of "40". Note that (Schönberg, 1954) gives the space group as I4122, but as (Villars, 1991) notes, the coordinates given increase the symmetry to I41/amd
Body-centered Tetragonal primitive vectors:
\[
\begin{array}{ccc}
\mathbf{a}_1 & = & - \frac12 \, a \, \mathbf{\hat{x}} + \frac12 \, a \, \mathbf{\hat{y}} + \frac12 \, c \, \mathbf{\hat{z}}\\
\mathbf{a}_2 & = & ~ \frac12 \, a \, \mathbf{\hat{x}} - \frac12 \, a \, \mathbf{\hat{y}} + \frac12 \, c \, \mathbf{\hat{z}}\\
\mathbf{a}_3 & = & ~ \frac12 \, a \, \mathbf{\hat{x}} + \frac12 \, a \, \mathbf{\hat{y}} - \frac12 \, c \, \mathbf{\hat{z}}\\
\end{array}
\]
Basis vectors:
\[ \begin{array}{ccccccc} & & \mbox{Lattice Coordinates} & & \mbox{Cartesian Coordinates} &\mbox{Wyckoff Position} & \mbox{Atom Type} \\ \mathbf{B}_{1} & =&\frac78 \, \mathbf{a}_{1}+ \frac18 \, \mathbf{a}_{2}+ \frac34 \, \mathbf{a}_{3}& =&\frac34 \, a \, \mathbf{\hat{y}}+ \frac18 \, c \, \mathbf{\hat{z}}& \left(4a\right) & \mbox{Nb} \\ \mathbf{B}_{2} & =&\frac18 \, \mathbf{a}_{1}+ \frac78 \, \mathbf{a}_{2}+ \frac14 \, \mathbf{a}_{3}& =&\frac12 \, a \, \mathbf{\hat{x}}+ \frac34 \, a \, \mathbf{\hat{y}}+ \frac38 \, c \, \mathbf{\hat{z}}& \left(4a\right) & \mbox{Nb} \\ \mathbf{B}_{3} & =&\frac58 \, \mathbf{a}_{1}+ \frac38 \, \mathbf{a}_{2}+ \frac14 \, \mathbf{a}_{3}& =&\frac14 \, a \, \mathbf{\hat{y}}+ \frac38 \, c \, \mathbf{\hat{z}}& \left(4b\right) & \mbox{P} \\ \mathbf{B}_{4} & =&\frac38 \, \mathbf{a}_{1}+ \frac58 \, \mathbf{a}_{2}+ \frac34 \, \mathbf{a}_{3}& =&\frac12 \, a \, \mathbf{\hat{x}}+ \frac14 \, a \, \mathbf{\hat{y}}+ \frac18 \, c \, \mathbf{\hat{z}}& \left(4b\right) & \mbox{P} \\ \end{array} \]References
- N. Schönberg, An X–Ray Investigation of Transition Metal Phosphides, Acta Chem. Scand. 8, 226–239 (1954), doi:10.3891/acta.chem.scand.08-0226.
- Z. W. Lu., S.–H. Wei, and A. Zunger, Long–range order in binary late–transition–metal alloys, Phys. Rev. Lett. 66, 1753 (1991), doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.66.1753.
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. 4511.