<div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:small" class="gmail_default"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:small">Dear QE users, <br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:small">I
am a new QE user and trying to calculate the electron concentration of pure ZnO and some
different kind of defects in same system from DOS file. But the problem
is I am not sure that the DOS file that I calculated is right. <br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:small">Please give me some advices and suggestions !!!</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:small">These are my following steps to calculate DOS ( the attached files below)<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:small">1) scf calculation</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:small">2) none scf calculation</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:small">3)
calculate DOS. When I plot the DOS I did shift the Fermi level (9.5021 eV) (I take
it from scf.out file ) to zero ( "F_zno_1.dos" file. ) . <br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:small">Mesh of k-points in scf calculation is 4x4x3. Firstly, I keep the same mesh of k-points for the n-scf calculation. <br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:small">I set "occupations = 'fixed'" to find the gap first, and then set "occupations = 'tetrahedra' to the DOS step. <br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:small">But
when I checked the DOS file, I found that there were still states
between highest occupied ( 8.8056 eV) and lowest unoccupied level
(9.6268 eV). <br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:small">I plot the DOS and can see where is the gap, but why there are states in the gap ?! <br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:small">I
timed double the mesh of k-points for n-scf calculation 8x8x6 and the
results did not change much. I think the gap from the Fermi level to the
bottom of Conduction band should not have any states in it. <br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:small">Please check my calculations and give me some advices about this issue!? <br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:small">Here is the link to attached files, please take a look:<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:small"><a href="https://drive.google.com/open?id=0BwnHIyCcZ3jbb0c4eDBXZldOc1E">https://drive.google.com/open?id=0BwnHIyCcZ3jbb0c4eDBXZldOc1E</a></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:small"></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:small">Best regards, <br></div>Nga</div><br>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><span style="color:rgb(136,136,136);font-size:12.8px">Nga Do</span><span style="color:rgb(136,136,136);font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(136,136,136);font-size:12.8px">Ho Chi Minh City Institute of Physics<br></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(136,136,136);font-size:12.8px">Third floor, Building 1, Mac Dinh Chi street, Ben Nghe Ward, District 1, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam</span><br style="color:rgb(136,136,136);font-size:12.8px"><span style="color:rgb(136,136,136);font-size:12.8px">website: </span><a href="http://www.vast.ac.vn/" rel="noreferrer" style="color:rgb(17,85,204);font-size:12.8px" target="_blank">www.vast.ac.vn</a><br style="color:rgb(136,136,136);font-size:12.8px"><span style="color:rgb(136,136,136);font-size:12.8px">Mobile: +84 938 672 414</span><br style="color:rgb(136,136,136);font-size:12.8px"></div><div><div><br><div><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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