Crystal Lattice Structures:	Creation Date: 28 Jan 2008
	Last Modified: 28 Jan 2008

The βBeO Structure

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• This structure has also been identified as a polymorph of ZnO.

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• Prototype: βBeO
• Strukturbericht Designation: none
• Pearson Symbol: tP8
• Space Group: P4₂/mnm (Cartesian and lattice coordinate listings available)
• Number: 136
• Other compounds with this structure: ZnO
• Reference: Smith et al., Acta Cryst. 18, 393 (1965).
• Primitive Vectors:

  A1	=	a X
  A2	=	a Y
  A3	=	c Z

• Basis Vectors:
  
  

  B1	=	x1 A1 + x1 A2	=	x1 a X + x1 a Y	(O)	(4g)
  B2	=	- x1 A1 - x1 A2	=	- x1 a X - x1 a Y	(O)	(4g)
  B3	=	(½ - x1) A1 + (½ + x1) A2 + ½ A3	=	(½ - x1) a X + (½ + x1) a Y + ½ c Z	(O)	(4g)
  B4	=	(½ + x1) A1 + (½ - x1) A2 + ½ A3	=	(½ + x1) a X + (½ - x1) a Y + ½ c Z	(O)	(4g)
  B5	=	x2 A1 - x2 A2	=	x2 a X - x2 a Y	(Be)	(4f)
  B6	=	- x2 A1 + x2 A2	=	- x2 a X + x2 a Y	(Be)	(4f)
  B7	=	(½ + x2) A1 + (½ + x2) A2 + ½ A3	=	(½ + x2) a X + (½ + x2) a Y + ½ c Z	(Be)	(4f)
  B8	=	(½ - x2) A1 + (½ - x2) A2 + ½ A3	=	(½ - x2) a X + (½ - x2) a Y + ½ c Z	(Be)	(4f)

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This is a mirror of an old page created at the Naval Research Laboratory Center for Computational Materials Science The maintained successor is hosted at http://www.aflowlib.org/CrystalDatabase/ and published as M. Mehl et al., Comput. Mater. Sci. 136 (Supp.), S1-S828 (2017).