Acta Crystallographica Section B

Structural Science

Volume 56, Part 5 (October 2000)



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Acta Cryst. (2000). B56, 750-765    [doi:10.1107/S0108768100006480]

Architecture of crystal structures from square planes

J. Hauck and K. Mika

Abstract: The crystal structures of ordered b.c.c. (body-centered cubic), f.c.c. (face-centered cubic) or primitive cubic alloys A_xB_y and related NaCl, ZnS or CaF_2 derivative structures are characterized by the self-coordination numbers T_1, T_2 of the A atoms with A atoms. Structures with identical T_1 and T_2 values for all A atoms are at the corners of T_1 and T_2 structure maps, and can be analyzed for attractive or repulsive interactions of A atoms. Most observed structures are at the borders of the structure map and can be obtained by ~10 different combinations of structural units. The different combination mechanisms explain e.g. the shear structures of CuAu II or \rm Nb_2O_5 and the occurrence of vacancies in NaCl-related structures like NbO.

Online 1 October 2000


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