Figure 6
A fragment of the structure of Li3AlN2. The stereopair shows a distorted f.c.c. unit cell of N atoms (blue spheres) with half of the tetrahedral holes occupied by two Al atoms (grey spheres) and two Li atoms (Ψ-B) (pink spheres). All together they form a unit cell of the blende-type AlBN2 (a III–V compound). The remaining four Li atoms, considered as donors, have been omitted. The distorted f.c.c. array of N atoms and the unit cell of elemental Ne have similar dimensions. |