The BAND-GUI modules

All BAND-GUI modules have the SCM menu on the left-hand side, on most systems represented by a small SCM logo. You can easily switch between the different modules of the BAND-GUI using this menu.

The BAND-GUI consists of several modules:

BANDinput

A utility program ($ADFBIN/bandinput), which enables ADF-BAND users to easily create BAND jobs. You can use BANDinput to define your periodic structure (geometry), and to set details of your BAND job using an easy-to-use graphical user interface. BANDinput will generate the complete job script for you. This script takes care of running BAND. You can also use BANDinput to run these script files on your local machine in the background.

BANDinput can be activated with the 'Input' command from the SCM menu.

ADFview

A simple program ($ADFBIN/adfview) that displays volume data, such as the electron deformation density and orbitals.

ADFview can be activated with the 'View' command from the SCM menu.

BANDstructure

This program ($ADFBIN/bandstructure) shows a plot of the electronic band structure

BANDstructure can be activated with the 'Band structure' command from the SCM menu.

ADFtail

A minor ADF-GUI utility ($ADFBIN/adftail) that will just show the contents of a text file, updating when the text file grows (like the UNIX tail -f command). It is used to monitor the 'logfile'. The progress of an BAND (and ADF) calculation is always written to this file.

ADFtail can be activated with the 'Logfile' command from the SCM menu.

BOB

A Basic Output Browser ($ADFBIN/bob) for the output generated by BAND (and ADF).

BOB can be activated with the 'Output' command from the SCM menu.