Crystal Structure
The unit cell of Cd3As2 is tetragonal. The arsenic ions are cubic close packed and the cadmium ions are tetrahedrally coordinated. The vacant tetrahedral sites provoked research by von Stackelberg and Paulus (1935), who determined the primary structure. Each arsenic ion was surrounded by cadmium ions at six of the eight corners of a distorted cube and the two vacant sites were at the diagonals .
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