NDLI: A hybrid method using the widely-used WIEN2k and VASP codes to calculate the complete set of XAS/EELS edges in a hundred-atoms system

Content Provider	Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)
Author	Bayle-Guillemaud, Pascale Moreau, Philippe Danet, Julien Donval, Gaël Boucher, Florent Larbi, Séverine Jouanneau-Si
Copyright Year	2017
Abstract	Most of the recent developments in EELS modelling has been focused on getting a better agreement with measurements. Less work however has been dedicated to bringing EELS calculations to larger structures that can more realistically describe actual systems. The purpose of this paper is to present a hybrid approach well adapted to calculating the whole set of localised EELS core-loss edges (at the XAS level of theory) on larger systems using only standard tools, namely the WIEN2k and VASP codes. We illustrate the usefulness of this method by applying it to a set of amorphous silicon structures in order to explain the flattening of the silicon L2,3 EELS edge peak at the onset. We show that the peak flattening is actually caused by the collective contribution of each of the atoms to the average spectrum, as opposed to a flattening occurring on each individual spectrum. This method allowed us to reduce the execution time by a factor of 3 compared to a usual—carefully optimised—WIEN2k calculation. It provided even greater speed-ups on more complex systems (interfaces, ∼300 atoms) that will be presented in a future paper. This method is suited to calculate all the localized edges of all the atoms of a structure in a single calculation for light atoms as long as the core-hole effects can be neglected.
Starting Page	1320
Ending Page	1327
Page Count	8
File Format	HTM / HTML PDF
ISSN	14639076
Volume Number	19
Issue Number	2
Journal	Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics
DOI	10.1039/c6cp06445k
Language	English
Publisher	Royal Society of Chemistry
Access Restriction	Open
Subject Keyword	VASP Amorphous silicon Edge Peak X-ray absorption spectroscopy WIEN2k
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Physics and Astronomy Physical and Theoretical Chemistry

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