<meta http-equiv="CONTENT-TYPE" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><title></title><meta name="GENERATOR" content="OpenOffice.org 2.0 (Linux)"><meta name="CREATED" content="20060217;9482000"><meta name="CHANGED" content="20070606;22473300"> <style type="text/css"> <!-- @page { size: 8.5in 11in; margin: 0.79in } P { margin-bottom: 0.08in } --> </style> <pre style="margin-bottom: 0.2in;"><font face="Nimbus Roman No9 L, serif"><font style="font-size: 13pt;" size="3">Dear all,</font></font> <font face="Nimbus Roman No9 L, serif"><font style="font-size: 13pt;" size="3">I use PBE-GGA and EV-GGA to calculated the band structure of a narrow gap semiconductor.<br></font></font> <font face="Nimbus Roman No9 L, serif"><font style="font-size: 13pt;" size="3">The semiconductor in my calculation is a bulk compound, and there is no reports about its band<br></font></font> <font face="Nimbus Roman No9 L, serif"><font style="font-size: 13pt;" size="3">gap
information. It is well known that EV-GGA can give the band gap value that is close to the<br></font></font> <font face="Nimbus Roman No9 L, serif"><font style="font-size: 13pt;" size="3">right value. Usually I use PBE-GGA to calculated the energy band structure, and shift the<br></font></font> <font face="Nimbus Roman No9 L, serif"><font style="font-size: 13pt;" size="3">conductive band to force the band gap to be the value given by EV-GGA. But in my<br></font></font> <font face="Nimbus Roman No9 L, serif"><font style="font-size: 13pt;" size="3">calculation, the PBE-GGA shows my semiconductor is a indirect band gap semiconductor, and<br> </font></font><font face="Nimbus Roman No9 L, serif"><font style="font-size: 13pt;" size="3">the EV-GGA <span style=""><span style="font-style: normal;">shows that it is a direct band gap semiconductor. I want to get the correct value<br></span></span></font></font> <font face="Nimbus Roman No9 L, serif"><font
style="font-size: 13pt;" size="3">of band gap in my semiconductor, and what should I do? The spin orbit coupling is<br></font></font> <font face="Nimbus Roman No9 L, serif"><font style="font-size: 13pt;" size="3">included in my calculation.<br></font></font> <font face="Nimbus Roman No9 L, serif"><font style="font-size: 13pt;" size="3">Thanks in advance<br></font></font> <font face="Nimbus Roman No9 L, serif"><font style="font-size: 13pt;" size="3">Joey Davis <br><br></font></font></pre> <p> 
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