simulating stm tip

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simulating stm tip

#1 Post by hannathamleena » Wed Oct 06, 2010 3:48 am

How can I simulate an stm tip in VASP? Can you explain the necessary steps briefly?
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simulating stm tip

#2 Post by admin » Tue Nov 02, 2010 2:16 pm

STM image calculations in VASP are based on the Tersoff Haman approach, which does not take the tip into account explicitely (the tip is implicitely assumed to be an s-wavefunction of a monoatomic tip)
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