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On May 20, 2015 12:52 AM, "reza vatan" <<a href="mailto:rezavatan64@gmail.com">rezavatan64@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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> Dear QE users,<br>
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> I want to create a thin amorphous Si layer on the top of a crystalline silicon terminated with (100) plane. Does any one knows if QE has that ability. If no, is there any free software for generating those amorphous structure?<br></p>
<p dir="ltr">Have you looked through the published literature and checked what others have done for this?</p>
<p dir="ltr">I would probably try to use a classical MD code that supports a potential like tersoff create just a thicker structure and then melt the top layer while keeping the rest immobile. Then transfer this geometry to qe and continue equilibration there. Relaxing a random structure in QE will likely require _much_ more computational effort. </p>
<p dir="ltr">Axel<br>
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> Any comment and suggestion would be highly appreciated.<br>
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> Best,<br>
> Reza <br>
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