Simplified electrostatic model for band-gap underestimates in the local-density approximation
- 15 April 1985
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review B
- Vol. 31 (8) , 5178-5182
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevb.31.5178
Abstract
An estimate of the undercounted electrostatic energy terms in local-density-functional total-energy calculations for nonmetallic systems with separated electron-hole pairs is used to derive a simplified correction to density-functional–theory band gaps. The correction is evaluated for Ne, Ar, Kr, LiF, NaCl, CsCl, MgO, CaS, BaS, C, AlP, and Si. The band-gap errors are reduced from 40–50 % to 10–15 % for most of the systems studied. Conduction-band corrections are shown to be nearly as large as valence-band corrections in free-electron-like semiconductors.Keywords
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