<div dir="auto">Thank you for your response.</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, 28 Apr, 2022, 5:57 pm Giuseppe Mattioli, <<a href="mailto:giuseppe.mattioli@ism.cnr.it">giuseppe.mattioli@ism.cnr.it</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><br>
Dear Satya<br>
<br>
Like Giovanni, I also don't know why you don't obtain what you expect. <br>
But I want to offer my own penny to the discussion.<br>
<br>
1) Due to the well known effect of delocalization errors in GGA-DFT, <br>
the band gap of Si is generally reduced to around 0.6 eV. The <br>
reduction involves both the lowering of the conduction band potential <br>
and the raising of the valence band potential. In the case of ZnO you <br>
have a strongly curved conduction band around the minimum at Gamma, <br>
which is not affected by delocalization errors, and a very problematic <br>
valence band, in which the interaction between the narrow O 2p and Zn <br>
3d contributions may raise the valence band maximum by more than 2 eV, <br>
shrinking the band gap to less than 1 eV in bulk ZnO.<br>
<br>
2) First of all, therefore, I would check *in the same supercell* if <br>
isolated Si and isolated ZnO slabs envisage a metallic character of <br>
the junction due to the unsymmetrical band gap underestimation of the <br>
two parts.<br>
<br>
3) The most stable ZnO surface is (10-10), not 0001 (or its 000-1 <br>
counterpart having reverse polarity). The polar surfaces of ZnO are <br>
tricky to simulate as slabs due to the strong polarity of the Zn-O <br>
bond. In the past, I obtained some weird layered hexagonal structure <br>
similar to BN! I suppose that the choice of (0001) is purposeful. If <br>
it is not, try to reconsider your choice.<br>
<br>
4) Such a strongly polar surface in contact with a non-polar Si <br>
surface may induce a huge interfacial charge transfer, even enhanced <br>
by delocalization errors mentioned above, or can lead to significant <br>
shifts of band edges, yielding a metallic character of the <br>
semiconductor junction.<br>
<br>
HTH<br>
Giuseppe<br>
<br>
Quoting Satyasiban Dash ph19d005 <<a href="mailto:ph19d005@smail.iitm.ac.in" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">ph19d005@smail.iitm.ac.in</a>>:<br>
<br>
> Yes . Thank you for the clarification. I am trying to match (0001) surface.<br>
> But I have observed upon relaxing ZnO loosing its symmetry and this may be<br>
> due to the polar surfaces but experimentally we do observe a band gap. I<br>
> have also tried dipole correction but results are same. But if I remove Si<br>
> its giving a gap. Is there anyway to reproduce it with Si (001).<br>
><br>
> On Thu, 28 Apr, 2022, 4:55 pm Giovanni Cantele, <<br>
> <a href="mailto:giovanni.cantele@spin.cnr.it" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">giovanni.cantele@spin.cnr.it</a>> wrote:<br>
><br>
>> Dear Satya,<br>
>><br>
>> it is not that easy (at least for me) to provide an answer to your<br>
>> question using the data you have provided. Maybe the output files (of scf<br>
>> and bands) and a plot of your band structure might help to infer if there<br>
>> is any issue in your calculation.<br>
>><br>
>> However, before wondering whether you get a metal whereas experiments<br>
>> measure a gap, you should also check that you are simulating a system that<br>
>> is as close as possible to the experimental one (in terms of thickness<br>
>> and/or surface orientation of both ZnO and Si, and so on). As far as the<br>
>> atomic positions are concerned, they look reasonable. It seems (if I’m not<br>
>> wrong) that you are trying to match a Si(100) surface with a ZnO(0001)<br>
>> surface, aren’t you? Is this what you expect?<br>
>><br>
>> Giovanni<br>
>><br>
>> --<br>
>><br>
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>> On 28 Apr 2022, at 07:09, Satyasiban Dash ph19d005 <<br>
>> <a href="mailto:ph19d005@smail.iitm.ac.in" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">ph19d005@smail.iitm.ac.in</a>> wrote:<br>
>><br>
>> Dear Users<br>
>> I have been trying to calculate a heterostructure with a slab model. I<br>
>> have followed most of the examples given in the forum and tried it still I<br>
>> am getting a metallic band structure. I have used the K-path generation<br>
>> tool provided in "material project" website to generate k-path. I have<br>
>> given the scf and <a href="http://bands.in" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">bands.in</a> file as attached files. Please have a look.<br>
>> Experimentally this system has a wide band gap.<br>
>><br>
>><br>
>> Thanks.<br>
>> Satya<br>
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