Finding Lattice vectors for POSCAR File

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Finding Lattice vectors for POSCAR File

#1 Post by Iyyapparajan » Mon Oct 20, 2014 2:12 pm

Hi Vasp Users,
I am new comer to vasp. Can anyone please tell me how to find out the lattice vectors (1st, 2nd and 3rd lattice vectors) of the unit cell in POSCAR file?

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Re: Finding Lattice vectors for POSCAR File

#2 Post by admin » Tue Oct 21, 2014 9:31 am

Origin is always 0,0,0.
Vector a goes from the origin to the point defined in the 3rd line of POSCAR,
vector b ...

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