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photocurrent
« on: January 9, 2018, 20:21 »
how do we test the convergence for photocurrent calculation.
also is the bias volatge applied  to the left and right electrodes in the device calculator setting applicable during photocurrent analysis

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Dear all,
    1.  How to calculate current density as a function of bias voltage more easily? [PHYS. REV. APPLIED 10, 014026 (2018)]
   2.  How to calculate the transmission as a function of energy for the given photon? [Nano Letters 2018 18 (11), 7275-7281 ]

Thank you very much for your help.

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Re: photocurrent
« Reply #2 on: June 4, 2019, 10:53 »
Convergence checks should be performed for the usual DFT settings.
When a good DFT simulation has been performed the kpoints and energies/energy_resolution used in the Photocurrent calculation should be checked.

A bias voltage is included in the usual way through the device calculator. Then one perform the calculation of the Photocurrent for each separate and converged device configuration at a given bias voltage.

The Photocurrent object has a query function "photocurrent.photonMediatedTransmission(photon_mode,...)" that can be used to obtain the transmissions as a function of energy for a selected photon energy index "photon_mode".
Please see the reference manual entry for Photocurrent for full description of the inputs to this query function:
https://docs.quantumwise.com/manual/Types/Photocurrent/Photocurrent.html#photocurrent-c

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Re: photocurrent
« Reply #3 on: July 19, 2021, 05:35 »
Convergence checks should be performed for the usual DFT settings.
When a good DFT simulation has been performed the kpoints and energies/energy_resolution used in the Photocurrent calculation should be checked.

A bias voltage is included in the usual way through the device calculator. Then one perform the calculation of the Photocurrent for each separate and converged device configuration at a given bias voltage.

The Photocurrent object has a query function "photocurrent.photonMediatedTransmission(photon_mode,...)" that can be used to obtain the transmissions as a function of energy for a selected photon energy index "photon_mode".
Please see the reference manual entry for Photocurrent for full description of the inputs to this query function:
https://docs.quantumwise.com/manual/Types/Photocurrent/Photocurrent.html#photocurrent-c


Dear Tue Gunst,

I also want to obtain the photon mediated transmission like that in Figure 6c of your paper [Nano Letters 2018 18 (11), 7275-7281]. However, when I use the following script in the .py input file, nothing obtianed except the photocurrent. Can you kindly give some help? thanks!

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# -------------------------------------------------------------
# Analysis from File
# -------------------------------------------------------------
device_configuration = nlread('Au-Ben-Au-0.0.hdf5')[1]

# -------------------------------------------------------------
# Photocurrent
# -------------------------------------------------------------
kpoints = MonkhorstPackGrid()

photocurrent = Photocurrent(
    configuration=device_configuration,
    energies=numpy.linspace(-2, 2, 101)*eV,
    photon_energies=numpy.linspace(0, 5, 10)*eV,
    kpoints=kpoints,
    photon_polarization=[0+0j, 0+0j, 1+0j],
    energy_resolution=0.05*eV,
    calculate_all_transmissions=True,
    )
nlsave('Au-Ben-Au-0.0-PC.hdf5', photocurrent)

photocurrent.photonMediatedTransmission(photon_mode=0)

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Re: photocurrent
« Reply #4 on: August 3, 2021, 10:45 »
The photon mediated transmission is not plotted in the gui but you can obtain the data from the object as you are suggesting.

energies = photocurrent.energies().inUnitsOf(eV)
transmission = photocurrent.photonMediatedTransmission(photon_mode=0)

and then plot these two variables with pylab or other prefered plotting tools (select wanted photon_mode index for which you want to plot the transmission).
Please see the object description here for further details:
https://docs.quantumatk.com/manual/Types/Photocurrent/Photocurrent.html#NL.Analysis.Photocurrent.Photocurrent

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Re: photocurrent
« Reply #5 on: August 3, 2021, 10:49 »
The photon mediated transmission is not plotted in the gui but you can obtain the data from the object as you are suggesting.

energies = photocurrent.energies().inUnitsOf(eV)
transmission = photocurrent.photonMediatedTransmission(photon_mode=0)

and then plot these two variables with pylab or other prefered plotting tools (select wanted photon_mode index for which you want to plot the transmission).
Please see the object description here for further details:
https://docs.quantumatk.com/manual/Types/Photocurrent/Photocurrent.html#NL.Analysis.Photocurrent.Photocurrent

Dear Tue Gunst,

I now can get the photon mediated transmission.

Thanks very much for your kind reply.

With best regards,

/Guang-Ping Zhang