[Wien] fermi energy at the bottom of conduction band
Peter Blaha
pblaha at theochem.tuwien.ac.at
Mon Oct 10 08:34:34 CEST 2005
This is a well know problem, which sometimes occurs in insulators due to
rounding problems.
Edit case.qtl and insert as Fermi-energy the top of the valence band.
> Recently I calculated bandstruct of a semiconductor, but unfortunately the
> Fermi
>
> Energy is at the bottom of conduction band instead of at the top of valence
> band, and
>
> Apparently there is a band gap between conduction band and valence band.
> What on earth
>
> does that mean? Could you please help me?
>
> Thank you very much
>
>
>
> Hao
>
>
P.Blaha
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