Dear Q.E Users.
I have a system of 4x4 graphene supercell, comprising 32 carbon 
atoms. I sucessfully run all the calculations i.e scf,nscf and other 
postprocessing such as DOS and PDOS. But the main problem i'm facing 
currently is on the density of state. Usually, i consider zero to be my 
fermi reference energy point in my ./dos.x input file, forexample,from 
-10 and 10 as my Emin and Emax respectivily. For pristine graphene,i 
expect to always see the dispersion at the zero vicinity, showing a semi 
metallic behavior, but surprisingly, its always moving 
away from zero to around -2, in the valence band side which i knew is unsual 
for pristine graphene. However, when i combine graphene with GaAs 
nanostructure, most of the interesting properties interms of orbitals 
contributions (PDOS), also resides on similar point -2. That is some of the 
contributions 
that are supposed to be seen at the vicinity of the fermi level, now 
moved to another point -2. Also, i consider changing the smearing from 
marzari-vanderbilt to Fermi- Dirac, but similar 
properties were observed. I decided to consider only 1x1, and 2x2 
graphene supercell alone, still similar properties i observed also. In 
fact, i even consider changing my pseudopotential from pw91 to 
pbe.rrkjus still no progress. My 
problem now, i don't know what really causes these shift from 0 to -2. 

I attached one of my graphene scf input file for your verification and advice.

?&CONTROL
??????????????????? title = 'Graphene monolayer01',
????????????????????? prefix = 'Graph01',
???????????????? calculation = 'scf' ,
??????????????? restart_mode = 'from_scratch'
 ,
???????????????????? outdir = '/home//???/espresso-4.1.2/bin/' ,
????????????????? pseudo_dir = '/home//???/???/espresso-4.1.2/upf_files/' ,
?????????????? 
???????????????????? tstress = .true. ,
???????????????????? tprnfor = .true.
 ,
?/
?&SYSTEM
?????????????????????? ibrav = 4,
?????????????????? celldm(1) = 18.59490373,
?????????????????? celldm(3) = 1.80,
???????????????????????? nat = 32,
??????????????????????? ntyp = 1,
???????????????????? ecutwfc = 34.D0
 ,
????????????????? tot_charge = 0.000000,
???????????????? occupations = 'smearing' ,
???????????????????? degauss = 0.02 ,
??????????????????? smearing = 'fermi-dirac' ,
???????????????????? 
?/
?&ELECTRONS
??????????????????? conv_thr = 1.D-8 ,
???????????????? mixing_beta = 0.7D0
 ,
?/
ATOMIC_SPECIES
???? C?? 12.00000? C.pw91-van_ak.UPF 
??? 
ATOMIC_POSITIONS (angstrom)
C??????? 1.229999657?? 0.709326753?? 1.999999753
C??????? 2.459999165?? 1.419486000?? 1.999999874
C??????? 3.689999208?? 0.709327391?? 1.999999822
C??????? 4.920000000?? 1.419486496?? 1.999999944
C??????? 4.920000000?? 2.839880146?? 2.000000125
C??????? 6.149999990?? 3.549976521?? 1.999999907
C??????? 3.690000010?? 3.549976521?? 1.999999907
C???????
 2.459999764?? 2.839879152?? 2.000000067
C??????? 6.150000792?? 0.709327391?? 1.999999822
C??????? 7.380000835?? 1.419486000?? 1.999999874
C??????? 7.380000236?? 2.839879152?? 2.000000067
C??????? 8.610000005?? 3.549975943?? 1.999999891
C??????? 8.609999654?? 4.970023341?? 2.000000208
C??????? 9.840000000?? 5.680120078?? 2.000000200
C??????? 7.379999382?? 5.680120770?? 2.000000152
C??????? 6.149999800?? 4.970024086?? 2.000000150
C???????
 4.920000000?? 5.680121474?? 2.000000132
C??????? 3.690000200?? 4.970024086?? 2.000000150
C??????? 8.610000343?? 0.709326753?? 1.999999753
C??????? 9.840000000?? 1.419485253?? 1.999999874
C??????? 9.840000000?? 2.839878353?? 2.000000070
C?????? 11.069999995?? 3.549975943?? 1.999999891
C?????? 11.070000346?? 4.970023341?? 2.000000208
C?????? 12.300000618?? 5.680120770?? 2.000000152
C?????? 12.300001137?? 7.100514050?? 2.000000166
C?????? 13.530000464??
 7.810673002?? 1.999999744
C?????? 11.070000830?? 7.810672948?? 1.999999928
C??????? 9.840000000?? 7.100514025?? 2.000000287
C??????? 8.609999170?? 7.810672948?? 1.999999928
C??????? 7.379998863?? 7.100514050?? 2.000000166
C??????? 6.149999536?? 7.810673002?? 1.999999744
C??????? 4.920000000?? 7.100514261?? 2.000000041
????? 
K_POINTS automatic 
? 6 6 1?? 0 0 0?

Thank you for your kind response.

Shamsu Abubakar
Postgraduate student

Department of PhysicsUniversity Putra Malaysia
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