<html><head><meta content="text/html; charset=windows-1252" http-equiv="Content-Type"></head><body><div><div style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Dear all, even if the topic have already been discussed, however I'd like to ask you if someone can give me a way to define correctly which mixing factor I have to apply for different cases, for instance insulators, semiconductors and metallic systems. <br>Moreover, just for my personal curiosity, shall I ask you which kind of general parameters would you set for a scf calculation of a simple cubic zirconia, ZrO2, with the aim of obtaining the DOS? <br>Thank you all, <br>Tommaso Francese<br>Universitą Cą Foscari of Venice<br></div></div></body></html>