Re: [SIESTA-L] Defining periodic structure

2017-11-15 Por tôpico Mostafa Shabani
Dear HarsH A1- For making a structure you need lattice vectors and atomic position coordinates of your unit cell structure to put in your input fdf file that you can find in the papers or some material structure databases. A2- You can check it by 3D structure visualization programs like VESTA or

Re: [SIESTA-L] Defining periodic structure

2017-11-15 Por tôpico Nick Papior
Dear Harsh, 2017-11-14 0:33 GMT+01:00 Harsh Shah : > Dear Siesta user, > > I am really new to this siesta software & I am just getting started with > it. > > I had a few basic questions: > 1.Which is the best software to use with siesta for making structures? > There are many options, VNL for aca

[SIESTA-L] Defining periodic structure

2017-11-14 Por tôpico Harsh Shah
Dear Siesta user, I am really new to this siesta software & I am just getting started with it. I had a few basic questions: 1.Which is the best software to use with siesta for making structures? 2.How can we define whether the structure is periodic or not and where to define it? 3.How to optimiz