<div dir="ltr">I selected 2000 k-points. grep GAP *.scf gives 0.923 eV while manually I found VBM at 0.0 eV and CBM at 1.10023 eV. So which one should be correct?<div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Dec 10, 2015 at 12:20 AM, <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tran@theochem.tuwien.ac.at" target="_blank">tran@theochem.tuwien.ac.at</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">If your k-mesh is not dense enough such that there is no k-point<br>
at the VBM and/or CBM or close to, then :GAP will be larger than<br>
the band gap from a band structure.<br>
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F. Tran<br>
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On Wed, 9 Dec 2015, Muhammad Sajjad wrote:<br>
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Dear AllDoes the command "grep GAP *.scf" gives correct band gap value? as when I found the bottom of conduction band in xmgrace it is higher. (bottom of CB is<span class=""><br>
read correctly by opening the plot in xmgrace and then read the date by editing in text editor).<br>
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Kind Regards<br>
Muhammad Sajjad <br>
Post Doctoral Fellow<br>
KAUST, KSA.<br>
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