<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large">Dear Prof. L. Marks,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large">Thanks for your suggestions. Yes, WO3 is an insulator.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large">I am facing the same issue for WC (SG: 187).</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large">I have worked on Ni(OH)2 and ZnO surfaces and I did not face any difficulties there. Ni(OH) surface is also polar.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large">For the present case, I do not have much choice. I was asked to provide the absorbance of some molecules on the (100) surface of WO3. The experimental group is not using any substrate/support for it.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large"><div class="gmail_default">I will read up on oxide surfaces.</div><div class="gmail_default"></div></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large">Thank you very much,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large">Bhamu</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large"><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Jun 25, 2021 at 12:46 PM Laurence Marks <<a href="mailto:laurence.marks@gmail.com" target="_blank">laurence.marks@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto">N.B., your cell is polar, and you are not satisfying valence neutrality or Pauling's rules. It will never occur in reality, and any results you obtain with it will move science backwards.<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Read up on oxide surfaces, much is known.<br><br><div dir="auto">_____<br>Professor Laurence Marks<br>"Research is to see what everybody else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought", Albert Szent-Györgyi<br><a href="http://www.numis.northwestern.edu" target="_blank">www.numis.northwestern.edu</a></div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Jun 25, 2021, 01:59 Laurence Marks <<a href="mailto:laurence.marks@gmail.com" target="_blank">laurence.marks@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto">Did you check:<div dir="auto">a) The BVS, to ensure that you do not have a GIGO surface?</div><div dir="auto">b) Whether the system has a decent gap or not -- I believe WO3 should be an insulator.</div><div dir="auto">c) Whether you are satisfying valence neutrality at the surface.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I expect you have a GIGO surface, 99.99% probability. You cannot just create an oxide supercell and expect it to lead to a realistic surface. Fixing layers won't help, and is <span class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large"></span>flawed thinking.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">GIGO.<br><br><div dir="auto">_____<br>Professor Laurence Marks<br>"Research is to see what everybody else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought", Albert Szent-Györgyi<br><a href="http://www.numis.northwestern.edu" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">www.numis.northwestern.edu</a></div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Jun 25, 2021, 01:31 Dr. K. C. Bhamu <<a href="mailto:kcbhamu85@gmail.com" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">kcbhamu85@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-size:large">Dear Wien2k Users,</div><div style="font-size:large"><br></div><div style="font-size:large">I am trying to relax the WO3 surface structure (1x1x5 with 15 Ang vacuum). The bulk structure crystallizes in 221 SG.</div><div style="font-size:large">Then I created the 1x1x5 layered structure and relaxed the top two layers with the bottom three layers kept fixed. <br></div><div style="font-size:large">I see after relaxation, the top layer detached from the system (the W-O bond length increased from 1.9 to 2.3 Ang), you can see from the PDF provided with this email.<br></div><div style="font-size:large">I have tried with QE as well and the same problem I faced there.<br></div><div style="font-size:large">I am wondering if someone has faced a similar experience and would like to share his/her experience with me to tackle this issue. <br></div><div style="font-size:large"><br></div><div style="font-size:large">I have used a different strategy: with U, with U, with dipole correction, without dipole correction, vacuum up to 30Ang.</div><div style="font-size:large"><br></div><div style="font-size:large">As the bulk system is a high symmetry system, is it the reason due to the symmetry? If so then how one can handle it?</div><div style="font-size:large"><br></div><div style="font-size:large">I am providing the required information here in the tar file (<a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://we.tl/t-0vedkrUS54__;!!Dq0X2DkFhyF93HkjWTBQKhk!Day7KZQBXQaPn8HGxSpldvOiJzObtS73z_8I17izzlA5ZmuvSj27rMzSsjCo-bt6MCzNAQ$" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">PLEASE DOWNLOAD FROM HERE</a>).</div><div style="font-size:large"><br></div><div style="font-size:large"><div>I would appreciate it if someone shares their experience with me.</div><div></div></div><div style="font-size:large"><br></div><div style="font-size:large">Regards</div><div style="font-size:large">Bhamu</div><div style="font-size:large"><br></div><div style="font-size:large"><br></div><div style="font-size:large"><br></div><div style="font-size:large"><br></div><div style="font-size:large"><br></div></div>
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