CASTEP

A full-featured materials simulation package based on a quantum mechanical description of electrons and nuclei.
Technology No. 111

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CASTEP is a leading code for calculating the properties of materials from first principles. Using density functional theory, it can simulate a wide range of materials proprieties including energetics, structure at the atomic level, vibrational properties, electronic response properties etc. In particular it has a wide range of spectroscopic features that link directly to experiment, such as infra-red and Raman spectroscopies, NMR, and core level spectra.

Research groups can apply for a CASTEP academic source code licence, which is free-of-charge for non-commercial use. STFC (CoSeC) administers academic licences on behalf of Cambridge Enterprise and the CASTEP Developers Group. Note that this academic licence only includes a command-line interface and does not include the BIOVIA Materials Studio graphical interface.

Prospective commercial users can obtain CASTEP through the BIOVIA Materials Studio product.

For further information, documentation, tutorials and community news, please visit https://www.castep.org.

Community support and archives can be found at the CASTEP mailing list.

Referencing CASTEP

In all papers using CASTEP please cite:
  • First principles methods using CASTEP, Zeitschrift für Kristallographie 220(5-6) pp. 567-570 (2005) S. J. Clark, M. D. Segall, C. J. Pickard, P. J. Hasnip, M. J. Probert, K. Refson, M. C. Payne

Specific functionality may also require additional citations.

Note that CASTEP will write a *.bib file containing suitable references in a bibtex format at the end of a run.

  • swap_vertical_circlelibrary_booksReferences (1)
    1. Clark, SJ; Segall, MD; Pickard, CJ; Hasnip, PJ; Probert, MJ; Refson, K; Payne, MC (2005), First principles methods using CASTEP, Zeitschrift für Kristallographie - Crystalline Materials, 220; 5-6, 567-570
  • swap_vertical_circlecloud_downloadSupporting documents (5)
    Product brochure
    CASTEP.pdf
    Installation Notes
    Documentation and guidance to build CASTEP from source.
    README.INSTALL.txt (44 KB)
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    Release Notes
    Release notes up to and including the latest academic CASTEP release.
    RELEASE.NOTES.txt (64 KB)
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    MD5 Checksums
    MD5 hashes of released source code tarballs
    checksums.txt (377 B)
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    Exploring Energy Efficient Computing [with CASTEP]
    Report to demonstrate how users of CASTEP can use high performance computing resources efficiently.
    Project_deliverable_ESCF2020-05.pdf (2 MB)
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CASTEP Academic Licence

Term: 4 years

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