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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in">Dear All
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in">I am working on ZnO in zinc blende
phase. I want to calculate band structure of this material. For zinc
blende we use ibrav = 2 and Zn ( 0.0 0.0 0.0 ) and O at 0.25 0.25
0.25 .</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in">The Brilliouin Zone is FCC. But if we
use ibrav = 1 (which is for simple cubic) and give the atomic
positions of Zn and O as
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in"> Zn 0.000 0.000 0.000
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in"> Zn 0.500 0.500 0.000
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in"> Zn 0.500 0.000 0.500
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in"> Zn 0.000 0.500 0.500
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in"> O 0.250 0.250 0.250
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in"> O 0.750 0.750 0.250
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in"> O 0.750 0.250 0.750
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in"> O 0.250 0.750 0.750</p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in">In this case BZ is simple cubic not
FCC. <font style="font-size: 13pt" size="3"><b>Now my question is that
is band gap will be same in both cases for ibrav = 2 and ibrav =1 as
structure is same </b></font><font style="font-size: 13pt" size="3"><i><b>i.e</b></i></font><font style="font-size: 13pt" size="3"><b>
zinc blende</b></font>. But band structure is different. {because BZ is different for different ibarv}</p>
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<br>Muhammad Zafar<br>
PhD Scholar<br>
Department of Physics<br>
The Islamia University of Bahawalpur,Pakistan</td></tr></table>