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QuantumWise is happy to announce that Virtual NanoLab (VNL) is now free for academic users!
VNL works as a graphical user interface for
Atomistix ToolKit (ATK), but QuantumWise also develops tools allowing VNL to act as a flexible graphical user interface for other software packages, including, but not limited to, FHI-aims, VASP*, QuantumEspresso, LAMMPS, and GPAW.
You can use VNL to build atomic structures and export them in all common file formats - or in your own or other custom format, since the functionality can be extended with plugins. You can also analyze and plot results from virtually any code in VNL, including your own by using the powerful
Python API to write new plugins that interpret the output files from the calculations.
The free academic license additionally includes ATK-Classical for running
molecular dynamics simulations, computing phonon spectra and other thermal properties, and for other calculations using empirical potentials.
Thus, if you work as an academic researcher at a university, college, or similar (but not including government labs), you can obtain a free, perpetual license for VNL by filling out
this form.
We hope you will enjoy VNL as much as our current users do! Have a look at
these testimonials to see what they say about the software.
Notes
* The free academic license does not include any capabilities for running DFT or semi-empirical electronic structure calculations using Atomistix ToolKit (ATK). For this, you need to purchase a license.
It also does not cover the the advanced VASP features, which include the VASP Scripter to set up full calculation input files and visualization of VASP result files. It is possible to import and export POSCAR files using just the free license. To use the additional VASP functionalities you must
purchase a license; prices start from €500 for a perpetual academic license.
Researchers and engineers working in industrial companies and government labs can purchase licenses for VNL. Please
contact us for pricing and more information about these options.