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Offline Khattab

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level alingment
« on: August 2, 2015, 01:43 »
Dear All,
I carried out some electron transport calculations and when i summit the manuscript, i got the following comment,

1- There is no discussion of the incorrect level alignment resulting from an LDA calculation, that is routinely corrected in similar calculations in the literature 
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Re: level alingment
« Reply #1 on: August 2, 2015, 23:57 »
I don't quite understand that comment, alignment of what levels? What is your system, what levels could we be talking about? Of course LDA underestimates the band gap (and perhaps also HOMO-LUMO gaps in molecules), and there are ways to adjust for this, but not by just "corrections", rather you can use methods like LDA+U or MGGA (or even HSE), but that's a different story, then you have to re-run all simulations. The key point is, in my opinion, that if any of your conclusions critically depend on the "level alignment" - whatever it means - then it's best to check if it's an artifact of LDA, or the same would happen regardless if the band gap or HOMO-LUMO gap was corrected.

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Re: level alingment
« Reply #2 on: August 7, 2015, 14:11 »
Dear Dr Anderson blom,
Firstly thank you very much for your valuable replies for all my pasts, which learned me alot, for this question, my system is a two porbe system consisting from two gold electrode and an organic molecule sandwiched between them, i calculate I-V curve and tried to explain it through Transmission spectra and MPSH and HLG, when i summit my manuscript , i got this replay.

I hope, the situation be clear for you now,
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Khattab