Merits and limits of the modified Becke - Johnson exchange potential

Improving the modified Becke-Johnson exchange potential

The modified Becke-Johnson exchange potential [F. Tran and P. Blaha, Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 226401 (2009)] (TB-mBJ) yields very accurate electronic band structures and gaps for various types of semiconductors and insulators (e.g., sp semiconductors, noble-gas solids, and transition-metal oxides). However, the TB-mBJ potential has, for a few groups of solids, the tendency to underestimate the ban...

Importance of the Kinetic Energy Density for Band Gap Calculations in Solids with Density Functional Theory

Recently, exchange-correlation potentials in density functional theory were developed with the goal of providing improved band gaps in solids. Among them, the semilocal potentials are particularly interesting for large systems since they lead to calculations that are much faster than with hybrid functionals or methods like GW. We present an exhaustive comparison of semilocal exchange-correlatio...

Electronic properties of III-nitride semiconductors: A first-principles investigation using the Tran-Blaha modified Becke-Johnson potential

First–Principle Calculation of the Electronic and Optical Properties of Nanolayered ZnO Polymorphs by PBE and mBJ Density Functionals

 First principle calculations of nanolayered ZnO polymorphs (Wurzite–, Zincblende–, Rocksalt–structures) in the scheme of density functional theory were performedwith the help of full potential linear augmented plane wave (FP-LAPW) method. Theexchange - correlation potential is described by generalized gradient approximation asproposed by Perdew–Burke–Ernzrhof (GGA–PBE) and modified Becke–Johns...

Implementation of the modified Becke-Johnson meta-GGA functional in Quantum Espresso

In this paper we present an implementation of the modified Becke–Johnson meta-GGA functional (TB09) in the PWSCF program of Quantum ESPRESSO package via the Libxc library. Using the functionals of TB09 we calculated the band gaps of some semiconductors and compared the resultswith previous calculations and experiments. We showed that combining GGA pseudo-potential with TB09 functionals would im...