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Structural formula: Mo3 S6

Functional: optB88-vDW

Space group : P-6m2

Calculation type: Bulk

JARVIS ID: JVASP-28530

Formation energy/atom (eV): -0.75

Relaxed energy/atom (eV): -5.0755

Primitive cell lattice parameters

a 3.215 Å , b 3.215 Å , c 17.606 Å

α 90.0 ° , β 90.0 ° , γ 120.0 °

Conventional cell lattice parameters

a 3.215 Å , b 3.215 Å , c 17.606 Å

α 90.0 ° , β 90.0 ° , γ 120.0 °

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Convergence

Calculations are done using VASP software. Convergence on KPOINTS and ENCUT is done with respect to total energy of the system within 0.001 eV tolerance. Please note convergence on KPOINTS and ENCUT is generally done for target properties, but here we assume energy-convergence with 0.001 eV should be sufficient for other properties also. The points on the curves are obtained with single-point calculation (nuber of ionic steps,NSW=1). However, for very accurate calculations, NSW>1 might be needed.

Structural analysis

The following shows the X-ray diffraction (XRD) pattern and the Radial distribution function (RDF) plots. XRD peaks should be comparable to experiments for bulk structures. Relative intensities may differ.

Electronic structure

The following shows the electronic density of states and bandstructure. DFT is generally predicted to underestimate bandgap of materials. Accurate band-gaps are obtained with higher level methods (with high computational requirement) such as HSE, GW, which are under progress. Total DOS, Orbital DOS and Element dos buttons are provided for density of states options. Energy is rescaled to make Fermi-energy zero. In the bandstructure plot, spin up is is shown with blue lines while spin down are shown with red lines. Non-degenerate spin-up and spin-down states (if applicable) would imply a net orbital magnetic moment in the system. Fermi-occupation tolerance for bandgap calculation is chosen as 0.001.

High-symmetry kpoints based bandgap (eV): 0.0394I

Optical properties Semi-local

Incident photon energy dependence of optical is shown below. Only interband optical transitions are taken into account.Please note the underestimatation of band-gap problem with DFT will reflect in the spectra as well. For very accurate optical properties GW/BSE calculation would be needed, which is yet to be done because of their very high computational cost. Optical properties for layered materials needs to be rescaled with the actual thickness to simulation z-box ratio. Absorption coeffiecient is in cm-1 unit.

Dense k-mesh based bandgap is : 0.423 eV

Optical properties METAGGA-MBJ

Single point DFT calculation was carried out with meta-gga MBJ functional. This should give reasonable bandgap, and optical properties assuming the calculation was properly converged. Incident photon energy dependence of optical is shown below. Only interband optical transitions are taken into account.

MBJ bandgap is : 0.1327 eV

Elastic tensor and derived phonon properties

Elastic tensor calculated for the conventional cell of the system with finite-difference method. For layered materials, the elastic constants are rescaled with respect to vacuum padding (see the input files) and the units for elastic coefficients are in N/m. Phonons obtained from this calcuation are also shown.

WARNING: Please note this may not be the exact phonon modes of the system as we did not test the cell-size dependence of phonons yet. At least 1.2 nm x1.2 nm x1.2 nm or more is needed for obtaining reliable phonon spectrum. For systems having primitive-cell phonon representation tables, I denotes infrared activity and R denotes Raman active modes (where applicabale). The minimum thermal conductivity was calculated using elastic tensor information following Clarke and Cahill formalism.

Bulk Modulus BV 92.256 GPa

Shear Modulus GV 47.433 GPa

211.5 77.7 34.0 0.0 0.0 -0.0
77.7 211.5 34.0 -0.0 -0.0 0.0
34.0 34.0 115.9 0.0 -0.0 0.0
0.0 -0.0 0.0 66.9 -0.0 0.0
0.0 -0.0 -0.0 -0.0 19.6 0.0
-0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 19.6
Phonon mode (cm-1)
-9.3283929232
-9.32838602
-0.0719323288
-0.0710994123
-0.056703757
36.2190667999
36.2190683042
69.3480370726
78.7213771306
306.457692424
306.457710467
313.609286467
313.609312186
315.372469427
315.372495294
404.149306022
404.149336161
415.493723404
415.493752703
416.608121301
416.608150534
441.861375026
451.129781042
462.981262617
493.981243545
504.227013715
507.785672524

Point group

point_group_type: -6m2

Visualize Phonons here
Phonon mode (cm-1) Representation
-9.3283929232
-9.3283929232
-0.0719323291
-0.0719323291
-0.056703757
-0.056703757
36.2190667999
36.2190667999
69.3480370726
69.3480370726
78.7213771306
78.7213771306
306.457692424
306.457692424
313.609286467
313.609286467
315.372469427
315.372469427
404.149306022
404.149306022
415.493723404
415.493723404
416.608121301
416.608121301
441.861375026
441.861375026
451.129781042
451.129781042
462.981262617
462.981262617
493.981243545
493.981243545
504.227013715
504.227013715
507.785672524
507.785672524

Magnetic moment

The orbital magnetic moment was obtained after SCF run. Please note no DFT+U parameters were taken into account.

-0.000 μB

Reference


POSCAR-mp-1025874.vasp
mp-1025874 MP link