- OLDHAMITE-NININGERITE SERIES - Mg7CaS8
This is a term of the MgS-Cas solid solution with ordered super-structure: every 8th Mg atom is replaced by 1 Ca. This ordering breaks the symmetry and makes some of the former IR modes of the ideal disordered (Mg,Ca)S solid solution Raman-acive. See article for details and experimental measurements.
Crystal Structure
Because of the translational symmetry all the calculations are performed in the primitive unit cell and not in the conventional unit cell. The following information regarding the structure is given with respect to this primitive unit cell, which sometimes can take an unintuitive shape.
Symmetry (experimental):
| Space group: | 225 | Fm-3m | ||||
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Symmetry (theoretical):
| Space group: | 225 | Fm-3m | ||||
| Lattice parameters (Å): | 10.3749 | 10.3749 | 10.3749 | |||
| Angles (°): | 60 | 60 | 60 | |||
Cell contents:
| Number of atoms: | 16 |
| Number of atom types: | 3 |
| Chemical composition: | 0 |
Atomic positions (theoretical):
| Ca: | 0.0000 | 0.0000 | 0.0000 |
| Mg: | 0.5000 | 0.0000 | 0.0000 |
| Mg: | 0.0000 | 0.5000 | 0.0000 |
| Mg: | 0.5000 | 0.5000 | 0.0000 |
| Mg: | 0.0000 | 0.0000 | 0.5000 |
| Mg: | 0.5000 | 0.0000 | 0.5000 |
| Mg: | 0.0000 | 0.5000 | 0.5000 |
| Mg: | 0.5000 | 0.5000 | 0.5000 |
| S: | 0.2500 | 0.2500 | 0.2500 |
| S: | 0.7412 | 0.2588 | 0.2588 |
| S: | 0.2588 | 0.7412 | 0.2588 |
| S: | 0.7412 | 0.7412 | 0.2588 |
| S: | 0.2588 | 0.2588 | 0.7412 |
| S: | 0.7412 | 0.2588 | 0.7412 |
| S: | 0.2588 | 0.7412 | 0.7412 |
| S: | 0.7500 | 0.7500 | 0.7500 |
| Atom type | X | Y | Z |
We have listed here the reduced coordinates of all the atoms in the primitive unit cell.
It is enough to know only the position of the atoms from the assymetrical unit cell and then use the symmetry to build the whole crystal structure.
Visualization of the crystal structure:
Please note that the structure is represented using the primitive cell, and not the conventional one.
Powder Raman
Powder Raman spectrum
The intensity of the Raman peaks is computed within the density-functional perturbation theory. The intensity depends on the temperature (for now fixed at 300K), frequency of the input laser (for now fixed at 21834 cm-1, frequency of the phonon mode and the Raman tensor. The Raman tensor represents the derivative of the dielectric tensor during the atomic displacement that corresponds to the phonon vibration. The Raman tensor is related to the polarizability of a specific phonon mode.
Choose the polarization of the lasers.
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Data about the phonon modes
Frequency of the transverse (TO) and longitudinal (LO) phonon modes in the zone-center. The longitudinal modes are computed along the three cartesian directions. You can visualize the atomic displacement pattern corresponding to each phonon by clicking on the appropriate cell in the table below.
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3.706e+39
15.5
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6.101e+39
25.5
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9.806e+39
41.0
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3.706e+39
15.5
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4.455e+39
18.6
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8.161e+39
34.1
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3.706e+39
15.5
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4.730e+39
19.8
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8.435e+39
35.3
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9.660e+37
0.4
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7.245e+37
0.3
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1.691e+38
0.7
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9.660e+37
0.4
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7.245e+37
0.3
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1.691e+38
0.7
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4.021e+39
16.8
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5.364e+39
22.4
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9.385e+39
39.3
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| 39 |
4.021e+39
16.8
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4.678e+39
19.6
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8.698e+39
36.4
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| 40 |
4.021e+39
16.8
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6.543e+39
27.4
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1.056e+40
44.2
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| 41 |
2.390e+40
100.0
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0.000e+0
0.0
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2.390e+40
100.0
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| No. | Char. | ω TO | ω LOx | ω LOy | ω LOz | I ∥ | I ⊥ | I Total |
You can define the size of the supercell for the visualization of the vibration.