On Jan 19, 2013, at 9:24 AM, ramzi alaya wrote:

> 
> Hi everyone,
> When we want to use a supercell to treat the case of alloys, we are actually 
> folding of the Brillouin zone to the point gamma, how to determine the energy 
> gap from the band structure
>  (? - ? and ? - X).

As usual, I would say: E(gap)=E(LUMO)-E(HOMO)

SB

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