Sorry please disregard previous message. Best
On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 5:19 PM, Cameron Foss <cjfoss at umass.edu> wrote: > Hello all, > > I am trying to study phonons in silicon under biaxial strain, which occurs > when you grow thin films of silicon over a germanium(or SiGe) bulk, which > has a slightly larger lattice constant than silicon, thus stretching the > silicon out. This type of procedure stretches silicon in the xy directions > and slightly compresses it in the z direction. This consequently distorts > the symmetry of the crystal. > > I have ran some strained cases; in which I "strain" the crystal by > changing the lattice vectors in the CELL_PARAMETERS CARD > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://pwscf.org/pipermail/pw_forum/attachments/20140814/3f9bab24/attachment.html
