<br clear="all"><div>Dear Dr Blaha,</div><div>Greetings from Rajagopalan Anna University Chennai</div><div>I am doing the Band structure calculation for Co2FeSi </div><div>The space group is 225 The lattice parameter is taken from the x-ray work </div>
<div>I like to see the half metallicity in the compound </div><div>I did LDA, GGA and LSDA+U </div><div>By doing doing LSDA+U I am able to see half metallicity in the compound and I am able to get the gap also</div><div>
Next I like to calculate the elastic properties </div><div>Here I am facing a problem </div><div>I am getting a negative value for C44 and C11 -- C!2 is also negative </div><div>This means that the system is not stable in this structure </div>
<div>I repeated the calculation number of times and I am getting the same result </div><div>I calculated the elastic properties for number of A3B compounds and checked with the reported results I get a good agreement </div>
<div>I donot know why for this compound namely Co2FeSi I am getting such a result</div><div>Will you kindly tell me the possible reason </div><div>As per x-ray results the space group is 225 for Co2FeSi and it is stable</div>
<div>Regards and greetings</div><div>Rajagopalan</div><div><br></div>-- <br><font color="#ff0000"><b> <i> <br>Dr M.Rajagopalan<br>Emeritus Scientist (CSIR)<br>Crystal Growth Center 20 6th Main Road<br>Anna University Chromepet<br>
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