Tuesday, January 31, 2012

A Battery That Charges in Seconds - ScienceNOW

A Battery That Charges in Seconds - ScienceNOW

Physicists Squeeze X-Ray Laser Light Out of Atoms - ScienceNOW

Physicists Squeeze X-Ray Laser Light Out of Atoms - ScienceNOW

Breaking the Law or Bending the Terminology? - ScienceNOW

Breaking the Law or Bending the Terminology? - ScienceNOW

Saturday, October 1, 2011

wien2k installation

tar -xvf WIEN2k_11.tar (skip this if you downloaded files separately)
gunzip *.gz
chmod +x ./expand_lapw
./expand_lapw

This will expand all files and copies various shell-scripts. In $WIENROOT/SRC you find the postscript version of the usersguide (160 pages). Proceed with reading chapter "Installation". You can then configure and compile WIEN using:

./siteconfig_lapw

After successfull installation, every user should run:

./userconfig_lapw

Sunday, September 18, 2011

catalyst study by using DFT calculations

The first-principles calculations can be used to study the catalyst. The quantities needed are the total energy and vibrational frequencies of the reaction species on the catalyst surfaces.