Dear all,
We are trying to calculate the elastic onstants for TiN using a 8 atoms supercell . We applied a tetragonal distortion to the supercell and VASP found a body centered tetragonal cell when was expected a face centered tetragonal cell.
POSCAR:
(Ti N)4
1.00000000000000
4.28262 0.0000000000000000 0.0000000000000000
0.0000000000000000 4.28262 0.0000000000000000
0.0000000000000000 0.0000000000000000 4.2187
4 4
Direct
0.0000000000000000 0.0000000000000000 0.0000000000000000
0.0000000000000000 0.5000000000000000 0.5000000000000000
0.5000000000000000 0.0000000000000000 0.5000000000000000
0.5000000000000000 0.5000000000000000 0.0000000000000000
0.5000000000000000 0.5000000000000000 0.5000000000000000
0.5000000000000000 0.0000000000000000 0.0000000000000000
0.0000000000000000 0.5000000000000000 0.0000000000000000
0.0000000000000000 0.0000000000000000 0.5000000000000000
Do you know what I am doing wrong?
Regards
supercell tetragonal distortion
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supercell tetragonal distortion
there is nothing wrong with your input, the symmetry analysis obviously rotates the cell such that it is reduced to a bct cell.
The LATTYP: found .... line has no effect on the remaining calculation, the cell is of course taken from POSCAR (fct)
The LATTYP: found .... line has no effect on the remaining calculation, the cell is of course taken from POSCAR (fct)
Last edited by admin on Thu Oct 25, 2007 8:24 am, edited 1 time in total.