<div dir="auto">Yes, I used PBESol followed by mBJ.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Feb 8, 2018 2:28 PM, <<a href="mailto:tran@theochem.tuwien.ac.at">tran@theochem.tuwien.ac.at</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi,<br>
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Did you use mBJ to calculate the band gap in both procedures?<br>
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FT<br>
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On Thursday 2018-02-08 09:35, Dr. K. C. Bhamu wrote:<br>
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Date: Thu, 8 Feb 2018 09:35:08<br>
From: Dr. K. C. Bhamu <<a href="mailto:kcbhamu85@gmail.com" target="_blank">kcbhamu85@gmail.com</a>><br>
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Subject: [Wien] a note on lattice parameter optimization<br>
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Hello,<br>
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Using experimental lattice parameters(a Ang), I optimized the structure with two options.<br>
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1. Directly optimized the structure without min_lapw ... and the optimized lattice parameters are in the vicinity of Exp a (~0.01 Ang accuracy) and the calculated band gap (from mBJ2) is in agreement with reported value ~0.3 eV less.<br>
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2. First relaxed the structure and then optimized this relaxed structure (without min_lapw ....). In this case the optimized lattice parameters are reduced by ~0.05 Ang and the band gap vanished or largely reduced.<br>
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Why is the second way of doing band structure not working?<br>
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I tested it on many systems. In some case system became metal and in some cases band gap largely reduced when I used the fully relaxed structure for optimization.<br>
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Thanks,<br>
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Bhamu<br>
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