Materials Data on Sr3Tb by Materials Project
Sr3Tb is beta Cu3Ti-like structured and crystallizes in the hexagonal P6_3/mmc space group. The structure is three-dimensional. Sr is bonded to eight equivalent Sr and four equivalent Tb atoms to form SrSr8Tb4 cuboctahedra that share corners with four equivalent TbSr12 cuboctahedra, corners with fourteen equivalent SrSr8Tb4 cuboctahedra, edges with six equivalent TbSr12 cuboctahedra, edges with twelve equivalent SrSr8Tb4 cuboctahedra, faces with four equivalent TbSr12 cuboctahedra, and faces with sixteen equivalent SrSr8Tb4 cuboctahedra. There are a spread of Sr–Sr bond distances ranging from 3.94–4.19 Å. There are two shorter (3.98 Å) and two longer (4.07 Å) Sr–Tb bond lengths. Tb is bonded to twelve equivalent Sr atoms to form TbSr12 cuboctahedra that share corners with six equivalent TbSr12 cuboctahedra, corners with twelve equivalent SrSr8Tb4 cuboctahedra, edges with eighteen equivalent SrSr8Tb4 cuboctahedra, faces with eight equivalent TbSr12 cuboctahedra, and faces with twelve equivalent SrSr8Tb4 cuboctahedra.