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Volume 123, Number 3, August 2018
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| Article Number | 37002 | |
| Number of page(s) | 6 | |
| Section | Condensed Matter: Electronic Structure, Electrical, Magnetic and Optical Properties | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1209/0295-5075/123/37002 | |
| Published online | 04 September 2018 | |
Wannier-Koopmans method calculations of organic molecule crystal band gaps
1 School of Advanced Materials, Peking University, Shenzhen Graduate School - Shenzhen 518055, PRC
2 Materials Science Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory - Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
(a) panfeng@pkusz.edu.cn (corresponding author)
(b) lwwang@ibl.gov (corresponding author)
Received: 6 May 2018
Accepted: 31 July 2018
It is important to accurately predict the band gaps of crystals, including organic crystals, with low computational cost. Despite the significant underestimation of the crystal band gap by the density functional theory (DFT), a recently proposed Wannier-Koopmans method (WKM) based on DFT calculations seems to yield accurate band gaps for a wide class of materials including common semiconductors, alkali halides and 2D materials. It is nevertheless important to test the limit of WKM, in particular in systems with unique characteristics. In this work, we apply the WKM to 10 organic small molecule crystals and find that the WKM calculated band gaps agree well with GW results. We also introduce a new way to calculate the Wannier functions in the WKM calculations.
PACS: 71.15.-m – Methods of electronic structure calculations
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