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Hi everyone,

When I do some DOS calculations, the number of data lines in DOSCAR is always 301. When I want to plot the DOS over a long energy range the plots can get a bit coarse and spiky. Is there any way to increase NDOS? Just setting NDOS = 2000 and making EMAX greater than EMIN in the INCAR file doesn't help. Is there any reason why NDOS is set to a relativly small value, will a larger value degrade calculation performance?
Thanks for any help.

greets,
Peter

set NEDOS= # as u wish, say 1001 in INCAR

Thanks Brane, in the section on the DOSCAR file it mentions NDOS, not NEDOS, but now that I look at other parts of the guide I see you are quite correct. Thanks again, this certainly is helpful to me.