<div>HI dear wien users. I found the following method in the mailing list to calculate the band gap from the case.scf file. My question is: is there a way to know if the band gap is direct or indirect using this method? and what if the conductance band maximum - valence band minimum rest is negative??
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<div>Thanks a lot.</div>
<div><br> Bandranges (emin - emax):<br>:<i>BAND : 2 -1.342369 -1.287164<br></i>:<i>BAND : 3 -1.319547 -1.287164<br></i>:<i>BAND : 4 -1.300594 -1.287164<br></i>:<i>BAND : 5 -0.713233
-0.585214<br></i>:<i>BAND : 6 -0.585964 -0.516677<br></i>:<i>BAND : 7 0.162252 0.291982<br></i>:<i>BAND : 8 0.217723 0.372030<br></i>:<i>BAND : 9 0.217723 0.416856<br></i>:<i>BAND : 10
0.384882 0.565678<br></i>:<i>BAND : 11 0.438274 0.567882<br></i>:<i>BAND : 12 0.483644 0.605570<br></i>:<i>BAND : 13 0.844622 0.918123<br></i>:<i>BAND : 14 0.844622 0.948978<br></i>:
<i>BAND : 15 1.037366 1.180795<br></i>:<i>BAND : 16 1.086124 1.299682<br></i>:<i>BAND : 17 1.142834 1.299682<br></i>...<br><br>:<i>FER : F E R M I - ENERGY(TETRAH.M.)= 0.60557<br></i><br>using the Fermi energy level at the a few lines later
<br>:<i>FER : F E R M I - ENERGY(TETRAH.M.)= 0.60557<br></i><br>One can see immediately the valence band minimum (VBM) being 0.605570 <br>Ry and conductance band maximum (CBM) being 0.844622 Ry.<br>So that the band gap being
0.845- 0.606 = 0.239 Ry = 3.25 eV<br><br><br>I hope this helps.<br><br> Hong<br><br><br> </div>