Global Parameters ISTART = 1 (Read existing wavefunction, if there) ISPIN = 1 (Non-Spin polarised DFT) # ICHARG = 11 (Non-self-consistent: GGA/LDA band structures) LREAL = Auto (Projection operators: automatic) ENCUT = 500 (Cut-off energy for plane wave basis set, in eV) Lattice Relaxation NSW = 80 (number of ionic steps) ISMEAR = 0 (gaussian smearing method ) SIGMA = 0.05 (please check the width of the smearing) IBRION = 2 (Algorithm: 0-MD, 1-Quasi-New, 2-CG) ISIF = 2 (optimize atomic coordinates and lattice parameters) EDIFFG = -1.5E-02 (Ionic convergence, eV/A) PREC = Accurate (Precision level) Electronic Relaxation SIGMA = 0.05 (Smearing value in eV, metals:0.2) NELM = 30 (Max electronic SCF steps) NELMIN = 6 (Min electronic SCF steps) EDIFF = 1E-08 (SCF energy convergence, in eV) # GGA = PS (PBEsol exchange-correlation) NELECT = 2445.0000 Parallelization NSIM = 4 NPAR = 24 LPLANE = .TRUE. LSCALU = .FALSE. NCORE = 4