Dear Hongsheng,<div> All the four bonds in ZnO wurtzite are equivalent. So to calculate the binding energy you have to use the below formula :</div><div>E_{binding-ZnO}=E{calculated-ZnO-wurtzite}-E_{Zn_{crystal-total}}-E_{E(1/2*O2}}.</div>
<div> Remember that you have to do spin-polarised calculation for O2 otherwise it will give wrong answer. Binding energy definition is same as above. And cohesive energy is the difference in energy between the energy of crystal and corresponding species in isolated phases. Below are the some references.</div>
<div><a href="http://arxiv.org/ftp/cond-mat/papers/0610/0610002.pdf">http://arxiv.org/ftp/cond-mat/papers/0610/0610002.pdf</a></div><div><a href="http://arxiv.org/ftp/cond-mat/papers/0610/0610002.pdf"></a><a href="http://prb.aps.org/pdf/PRB/v70/i5/e054104">http://prb.aps.org/pdf/PRB/v70/i5/e054104</a><br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 12:19 PM, 红生 赵 <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:zhaohscas@yahoo.com.cn">zhaohscas@yahoo.com.cn</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" style="font:inherit">Hi all,<br><br>I want to obtain the binding energy ( in the unit of eV/Zn-O pair ) for Wurtsite ZnO. Considering that there are two different length of Zn-O bond, I cann't figure out how to calculate the binding energy in the unit ev/ZnO. Any hints on this issue?<br>
<br>Regards.<br>Hongsheng.<br><br><br></td></tr></tbody></table><br>_______________________________________________<br>
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