<div dir="ltr"><div>Hi,<br><br></div>You have to do slab calculation to simulate a thin film. There are many examples involving slabs in QE. But you have to create the slab by yourself using the optimized bulk structure. First you have to decide the direction in which you want to cleave the bulk then with the help of visualization tool like XCrysden, you can create the slab. <br>
</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jun 3, 2013 at 8:07 AM, samad zare <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:samadzare@gmail.com" target="_blank">samadzare@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><pre>Dear all,
Now, i am trying to calculate same properties sio2 for thin films. As a
first step, we need to generate case.struct for the thin film.
For this, i have searched in pwscf forum to do these kind of
calculations, i didn't find any tutorial type input for thin film
structure file.
As a beginners,i need some basic guidelines to build the thin film
structure file. So, i am requesting some one to provide the
preliminary
details to do so. What are all the changes in structure file from bulk
to thin films ???*
*
Thanks in advance</pre><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br clear="all"><br>-- <br><span><font color="#888888"><div><font style="font-style:italic;font-weight:bold"><font color="#0000bf"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,191)">With Best Regards</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,191)">
</font><span style="color:rgb(0,0,191)"><font color="#0000bf">SAMAD ZARE<span></span>, phD Student UTM university<br>
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