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simulating stm tip

Posted: Wed Oct 06, 2010 3:48 am
by hannathamleena
How can I simulate an stm tip in VASP? Can you explain the necessary steps briefly?

simulating stm tip

Posted: Tue Nov 02, 2010 2:16 pm
by admin
STM image calculations in VASP are based on the Tersoff Haman approach, which does not take the tip into account explicitely (the tip is implicitely assumed to be an s-wavefunction of a monoatomic tip)