[ase-users] ASE made Pt(111) surface, cannot converge in VASP

[Niels Bendtsen Halck]

Hi Qiang

I canøt remember how the vacuum tag is handled but check your unit cell dimensions and the distance between two slabs in the z direction. (you can do that in the ase-gui easily)

You might have twice the vacuum you expect.

Niels Bendtsen Halck
Postdoc
DTU Energy
Bygning 309
2800 Kgs. Lyngby
ntben at dtu.dk
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Emne: [ase-users] ASE made Pt(111) surface, cannot converge in VASP

Dear ASE users,


I use ase to to make a Pt(111) surface

from ase.build import fcc111
from ase.io import write
slab = fcc111('Pt', size=(3,3,4), a=3.98, vacuum=15.0)
#write('pt111.xyz', slab)

slab.write('POSCAR', vasp5=True)

I use the POSCAR (fix the bottom two Pt layers) for VASP calculation, but it is take long time without converging. Is there something wrong with my script? Thanks for your time.


Sincerely,

Qiang Zhang