Getting started

Introduction

The purpose of surfaxe is to simplify the calculation of surface properties of inorganic compounds using first-principles codes. The package includes pre-processing tools to cleave surfaces from the bulk, automatically set up calculation directories and facilitate convergence testing, as well as post-processing tools to calcualte surface energies, electrostatic potentials, and produce publication-qaulity plots.

Installation

Installation will be via pip in the near future. For now, please clone the repository and install the latest stable version:

git clone https://github.com/SMTG-UCL/surfaxe.git
cd surfaxe
pip install -e .

The -e is optional and will install the project in developer (editable) mode.

For the code to generate VASP input files along with the surface slabs, pymatgen POTCAR environment must be set up correctly.

Usage

In general, there are two ways to use surfaxe: (i) at the command line or (ii) using python in scripts or notebooks.

Take a look at our command line interface (CLI) examples for an overview of the CLI tools available.

There is full documentation for all modules (have a browse of the side bar on the left) if you would rather use the python API directly.