<div dir="ltr"><pre style="font-family:courier,"courier new",monospace;font-size:14px;white-space:pre-wrap;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Dear Sir,</pre><div><pre style="font-family:courier,"courier new",monospace;font-size:14px;white-space:pre-wrap;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0)">>The band gap should not change: in a supercell you will have more electronic
>bands but the band gap must remain the same. Again, please check that you do
>all properly or share your files.
</pre><pre style="font-family:courier,"courier new",monospace;font-size:14px;white-space:pre-wrap;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Thank you so much fr this suggestion.</pre><pre style="font-family:courier,"courier new",monospace;font-size:14px;white-space:pre-wrap;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0)"> I guess I am taking wrong K points. Also I didn't perform the K points convergence test for supercell. This may be one the reson of this discrepancy. I'll chk this again, also I am thinking to perform convergence test for each supercell.</pre><pre style="font-family:courier,"courier new",monospace;font-size:14px;white-space:pre-wrap;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Only one query I have, my a,b,c parameters for unitcell are 13.764, 3.699, 3.95. It is bulk system. For K points convergence wrt energy, I took K points sets like 2x2x2 3x3x3... like this , and at 5x5x5 I obtained a good convergence. Since my a,b,c are not equal so I am taking in SCF calculation 5X10X9.</pre><pre style="font-family:courier,"courier new",monospace;font-size:14px;white-space:pre-wrap;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0)">This 5X10X9 set is correct to to take although at 5X5X5 I obtained the convergence.</pre><pre style="font-family:courier,"courier new",monospace;font-size:14px;white-space:pre-wrap;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Thank you so much once again.</pre><pre style="font-family:courier,"courier new",monospace;font-size:14px;white-space:pre-wrap;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></pre><pre style="font-family:courier,"courier new",monospace;font-size:14px;white-space:pre-wrap;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Thanks and regards,</pre><pre style="font-family:courier,"courier new",monospace;font-size:14px;white-space:pre-wrap;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Poonam Sharma </pre><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br></div><div dir="ltr">Poonam Sharma<div>Research Scholar </div><div>Department of Physics</div><div>Indian Institute of <span>Technology Bombay</span></div><div><div>Mumbai - 400076<br></div>India.<br></div><div><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Nov 7, 2021 at 9:17 AM poonamsharma <<a href="mailto:poonamkaushik40@gmail.com">poonamkaushik40@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(35,38,41);font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,"Segoe UI","Liberation Sans",sans-serif;font-size:15px">Dear users,</span></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(35,38,41);font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,"Segoe UI","Liberation Sans",sans-serif;font-size:15px">I am trying to calculate the bandgap for one system in the unit cell and in the supercell of 2x2x1 and 3x1x1. Although 3x1x1 gives the same bandgap as I got from the unit cell (1.80 eV) but 2x2x1 is giving 1.75 eV. I kept the input files settings same in supercells as in-unit cell including K- POINTS. I observed this bandgap by plotting the dos. I think the bandgap should remain the same in the supercell.</span><br></div><div><span style="color:rgb(35,38,41);font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,"Segoe UI","Liberation Sans",sans-serif;font-size:15px">Is this 1.75 eV is acceptable.</span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(35,38,41);font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,"Segoe UI","Liberation Sans",sans-serif;font-size:15px">Also in order to match this bandgap with the experimental value, I applied the U parameter. In unit-cell with different U values, I got a variation in band gap that I am expecting but in supercell, bandgap remains the same, no variation observed.</span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(35,38,41);font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,"Segoe UI","Liberation Sans",sans-serif;font-size:15px">I'll be very thankful for any suggestions.</span></div><div><br></div><div><font color="#232629" face="-apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Segoe UI, Liberation Sans, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:15px">Thanks and regards,</span></font></div><div><font color="#232629" face="-apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Segoe UI, Liberation Sans, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:15px">Poonam Sharma</span></font></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br></div><div dir="ltr">Poonam Sharma<div>Research Scholar </div><div>Department of Physics</div><div>Indian Institute of <span>Technology Bombay</span></div><div><div>Mumbai - 400076<br></div>India.<br></div><div><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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