<div dir="ltr"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Surface energy =( Energy of slab - average energy of every bulk atom * number of atoms) / (2*area of surface cell)</span><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 11:53 PM, Jack Davis <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:JXD231@bham.ac.uk" target="_blank">JXD231@bham.ac.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Dear Forum,<br>
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I’m trying to calculate surface energies using PWscf, however, I am unsure of the methodology. To begin with we calculate the bulk energy of the FCC unit cell, using the attached input. We then calculate the energy of a 111 slab, 10 layers thick with a 6 atom vacuum gap. The surface energy is then calculated as,<br>
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Surface energy = Energy of slab - (bulk energy * 10) / 2.<br>
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I think I am probably misunderstanding the energies PWscf is giving me. We’re getting some strange answers!<br>
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Thank you,<br>
Jack Davis<br>
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School of Chemistry<br>
University of Birmingham<br>
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