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Hi Symmetry points of C3N4
« on: October 26, 2019, 08:45 »
Hi,
After inserting  CIF file in Quantum ATK, I am not getting the proper bands for C3N4.
How does it work?
Also, I am not able to feed the exact high symmetry points of C3N4 in ATK.
Please give the solution.

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Re: Hi Symmetry points of C3N4
« Reply #1 on: October 26, 2019, 09:16 »
Please describe your problem in more detail. Also, what version of QuantumATK are you using?

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Re: Hi Symmetry points of C3N4
« Reply #2 on: October 26, 2019, 09:56 »

I am using the version 2019.03 .
I was trying the following link to define crystal structure for C3N4.
https://docs.quantumwise.com/tutorials/cif/cif.html.
I download cif file and tried the above steps.
After I simulated the Band Structure, I found the band gap is not accurate and also the wave vectors of high symmetry points in the Brillouin zone could not be defined properly.
The link referred for CIF file and band structure of C3N4 is  given below:
https://materialsproject.org/materials/mp-1985/

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Re: Hi Symmetry points of C3N4
« Reply #3 on: October 28, 2019, 19:52 »
If you download cif-file corresponding to the primitive unit cell structure, and convert it from Triclinic to Hexagonal unit cell type in the Lattice parameter plugin (note to use Fractional instead of Cartesian). You may also use a new plugin in the Builder to detect symmetry of the structure in the Crystal Symmetry Info, and then apply it to the structure.

Band structure analysis object will then compute the band structure along the symmetry k-lines corresponding to hexagonal cell. If you do DFT-LCAO calculations using default settings of QuantumATK, you will get a band structure similar to that in the database.  It is not exactly the same, because one should find out which DFT functional was used in that calculation in the database, as well as other computational settings such as basis set, pseudopotential, k-point sampling, total energy tolerance, density mesh cutoff for LCAO or wave function cutoff for the plane-wave basis set and so on.     

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Re: Hi Symmetry points of C3N4
« Reply #4 on: October 29, 2019, 13:32 »

PLease comment whether the Band diagram is correct or not?


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Re: Hi Symmetry points of C3N4
« Reply #5 on: October 29, 2019, 16:42 »
Do you mean whether this band structure is similar to that in the material project? I do not know what is the correct band structure for this material, as I have never studied this material. That is something one should truly investigate.

One thing to mention, it would be much easier to do comparison with the database diagram if you reduce the energy interval to that used in the material project calculation; there is a zoom option in the Band structure visualizer for doing that.