Re: [Wien] Plasma frequency in semi-metal case and effect of band folding on optical properties

2013-07-14 Thread Peter Blaha
If you have a metal, i.e. some bands cross EF, you should have a finite (maybe small) plasma frequency (like in transparent conducting oxides) Am 13.07.2013 18:37, schrieb venkatesh chandragiri: Dear sir, *I thought your material has a gap, and the question was only direct or indirect ..

Re: [Wien] Plasma frequency in semi-metal case and effect of band folding on optical properties

2013-07-13 Thread Peter Blaha
I thought your material has a gap, and the question was only direct or indirect .. ?? Of course, a supercell MUST not change the optical property. The momentum matrix elements should take care that there is no transition from Gamma - backfolded-X point. Am 12.07.2013 22:25, schrieb

Re: [Wien] Plasma frequency in semi-metal case and effect of band folding on optical properties

2013-07-13 Thread venkatesh chandragiri
Dear sir, *I thought your material has a gap, and the question was only direct or indirect .. ??* If i did the calculations using the structure stimulated from the space group (225), it shows a negative indirect band gap in the band structure (negative indirect band gap means, the valance band

[Wien] Plasma frequency in semi-metal case and effect of band folding on optical properties

2013-07-12 Thread venkatesh chandragiri
Dear sir, I have measured the optical properties of Fe2VAl material by creating a primitive like lattice which contains 16 atoms. Being a semi-metal like nature, Fe2VAl shows typical pseudo-gap like behaviour in DOS spectrum. However, i have seen that a few orbitals are crossing each other at