<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2012/3/28 Nicola Marzari <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:nicola.marzari@epfl.ch">nicola.marzari@epfl.ch</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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There is no harm in using smearing in a semiconductor/insulator (only<br>
an increased cost in the calculation).<br>
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To get the band gap you need in any case the empty states - but note that<br>
unless you know at which k-point the band gap is, you need to do a close<br>
examination of the entire band structure.<br>
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last, of course the dft band gap is fairly useless.<br></blockquote><div><br>Dear Sir, so what approch should we take to calculate the band gap of semiconductor structure in QE...Thanks in advanced for your kind response.<br>
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nicola<br>
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On 28/03/2012 11:25, sufyan wrote:<br>
> Dear quantum espresso user, i study a case with different constrain and<br>
> under some constrain this case changes from conductor to semiconductor<br>
> and vers-versa and I have a question firstly about "occupations=<br>
> 'smearing or fixed '" what can i do with it ? secondly Does the pw.x<br>
> give the band gap as numerical results in the out file ? thanks sufyan naji<br>
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