<div dir="ltr">A small comment: the definition of fermi energy, fermi level and chemical potential is a question of semantics and confusion, see for instance <a href="http://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/30922/whats-the-difference-between-fermi-energy-and-fermi-level">http://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/30922/whats-the-difference-between-fermi-energy-and-fermi-level</a><div><br></div><div>Since this is primarily a physics forum, it is probably best to stay with the Fermi energy as T=0K and Fermi level = chemical potential at T > 0K.</div><div><br></div><div>If you use TEMPS in case.in2(c) an approximation of the chemical potential is printed out. For a metal or small-gap insulator (semiconductor) it is quite good; for a large-gap insulator for numerical reasons it is not right.</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Oct 20, 2016 at 8:39 AM, Fecher, Gerhard <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:fecher@uni-mainz.de" target="_blank">fecher@uni-mainz.de</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">The definition of the FERMI ENERGY that I gave is correct for every material: The Fermi energy is the energy of the highest occupied state at Zero temperature.<br>
It does not depend wheter or not your material is a metal, an intrinsic semiconductor, an doped semiconductor, an insulator, or anything else.<br>
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Indeed, for metals the Fermi energy corresponds to the chemical potential (the quantity that enters the Fermi-Dirac distribution) at Zero temperature.<br>
but the chemical potential of a metal will also depend on temperature (Note: the chemical potential, not the Fermi energy, depends on temperature.).<br>
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The Zero used in the electronic structure plots (DOS, band structure, etc.) of Wien2k is the Fermi energy as defined above,<br>
therefore, it is correct to have the Zero at the top of the valence band.<br>
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By the way, you never defined what you mean with "Fermi level" and why it must be in the middle of the band gap.<br>
If you define for whatever reason that "Fermi level" is "the energy in the middle of the band gap" then your question does not make sense.<br>
However, if you like to stay with youre middle of the gap definition, then you should give a mathematical and physical proof that this is something<br>
usefull for all shapes of the density of states of a semi-conductor.<br>
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If you like to know where the chemical potential in a certain semi-conducting material is then you may check with Boltztrap,<br>
you have to do the same that I did when its still not implemented there , change the code to include it.<br>
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Just to mention, it is not my habit to answer questions about Wien2k that are send directly to me, please use the forum.<br>
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Ciao<br>
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Gesendet: Donnerstag, 20. Oktober 2016 14:48<br>
An: Fecher, Gerhard<br>
Betreff: Re:Fermi level<br>
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Dear Gerhard,<br>
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Thank you for your reply but this definition of Fermi level is correct for a metal and not for a semiconductor so in band structure putting fermi level at the top of valence band is wrong.<br>
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