-    BISMUTHINITE     -    Bi2S3

The crystal structure is fully relaxed (both unit cell parameters and atomic positions under symmetry constraints) starting from an experimental structure similar to the one reported in AMCSD

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:  62  Pnma 
Lattice parameters (Å):  5.9633  2.1017  5.8892 
Angles (°):  90.0  90.0  90.0 

Symmetry (theoretical): 

Space group:  62  Pnma 
Lattice parameters (Å):  11.0181  3.8455  10.6192 
Angles (°):  90  90  90 

Cell contents: 

Number of atoms:  20 
Number of atom types: 
Chemical composition: 

Atomic positions (theoretical):

Bi:  0.5150  0.2500  0.1771 
Bi:  0.6674  0.7500  0.4741 
S:  0.6283  0.7500  0.0523 
S:  0.7179  0.2500  0.3081 
S:  0.4517  0.7500  0.3686 
Bi:  0.9850  0.7500  0.6771 
Bi:  0.8326  0.2500  0.9741 
S:  0.8717  0.2500  0.5523 
S:  0.7821  0.7500  0.8081 
S:  0.0483  0.2500  0.8686 
Bi:  0.4850  0.7500  0.8229 
Bi:  0.3326  0.2500  0.5259 
S:  0.3717  0.2500  0.9477 
S:  0.2821  0.7500  0.6919 
S:  0.5483  0.2500  0.6314 
Bi:  0.0150  0.2500  0.3229 
Bi:  0.1674  0.7500  0.0259 
S:  0.1283  0.7500  0.4477 
S:  0.2179  0.2500  0.1919 
S:  0.9517  0.7500  0.1314 
Atom type 

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: 

Size:

Nx:  Ny:  Nz: 
You can define the size of the supercell to be displayed in the jmol panel as integer translations along the three crys­tallo­gra­phic axis.
Please note that the structure is represented using the pri­mi­tive cell, and not the conventional one.