Dear all,

I know there have been loads of posts about this topic before and I looked 
through them for the past 2 weeks.

In the course of my PhD (which I just started) I am looking at band gap tuning 
in graphene. So I just benchmarked graphene (cutoff energy, k-point,
optimisation of lattice parameter etc) and now attempt to calculate the band 
structure.
However, I constantly obtain a band gap when I should see the characteristic 
Dirac point in K. So I checked if I use enough vacuum space, enough k-points, 
how the pseudopotential influences the band structure, which unit cell/lattice 
vectors quantum espresso is using so that I give the high symmetry points in 
the correct positions (I tried different positions for the high symmetry 
points) and also used the k-point path generator of xcrysden (the k-point path 
obtained with that is used in the input files I attached).
I should mention that I use the following script for the generation of band 
structures and have successfully used it before on Au(111) surfaces:

http://www.tcm.phy.cam.ac.uk/~jry20/bands.html

As already mentioned, please find my latest in and output files as well as the 
script and README file for the script I am using to generate band structures 
with quantum espresso in the following shared dropbox folder:


https://www.dropbox.com/sh/gtq8djtsew5h573/AABTzcqWMJ5iR9UMiTzEDFUYa?dl=0


Best wishes,
Mariana Hildebrand.




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