[Wien] DOS

[Stefaan Cottenier]

>       I sum the DOS in the Valence Band , It should be equal to the
> number of all electron in the Valence Band.
> But the result is too big to hundreds, there just have 3 atom in the
> cell. Does anybody tell me the meaning of
> the DOS sum (DOS  area) in  physics?

The area -- up to E_F -- is indeed the number of valence electrons 
(ignoring sharply peaked semicore states). Perhaps you made an error 
in making the integral (probably done as a Rieman sum: DOS-value * 
energy-step, and this summed from 'minus infinity' to E_F)?

Look in case.outputt, where you have next to the columns with the DOS-
values also the integral as a function of energy directly given.

Stefaan


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