<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;color:#000000">Is this a metal, single element compound or an oxide (insulator)? If it is a compound probably none of the methods is right. Otherwise all are equally right or wrong. (30 bohr seems to be anomalously large.)</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Fri, Oct 19, 2018 at 3:22 PM shaymlal dayananda <<a href="mailto:kcsdayananda@yahoo.com">kcsdayananda@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<div dir="ltr" id="m_-2746978532239756336yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1539979163016_7163">I need to generate a supercell for a CYZ structure for workfunction calculation with WIEN2k 18.2.</div>
<div dir="ltr" id="m_-2746978532239756336yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1539979163016_7164">However "supercell" program in Wien2k does not support this group. Hence I found two other methods to create the supercell.</div>
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<div dir="ltr" id="m_-2746978532239756336yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1539979163016_7174">one method is VESTA. My structure has a=4.12 ,b= 11.9, c=6.32 (Angstrom) with orthorhombic structure.Thus I thought to create a supercell of the size 1x3x1 and then to add 30 bohr vacuum to the y-axis
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<div dir="ltr" id="m_-2746978532239756336yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1539979163016_7390">In the second method, by using METADISE code, I can create a surface along 010 and then the supercell based on that and add the vacuum.</div>
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<div dir="ltr" id="m_-2746978532239756336yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1539979163016_7392">I felt that VESTA method is easy to do. But I am bit hesitated if I am has a wrong structure with VESTA (missing symmetry or anything).</div>
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<div dir="ltr" id="m_-2746978532239756336yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1539979163016_7459">Can someone please let me know, if you know, which is the correct way? or what is wrong with VESTA method?
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<div dir="ltr" id="m_-2746978532239756336yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1539979163016_7455">I am waiting for your answer to continue my calculation</div>
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<div dir="ltr" id="m_-2746978532239756336yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1539979163016_7457">Thank you for your valuable comments</div>
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