LOBSTER is out, and you can get it right here! LOBSTER allows you to calculate projected COHP and COOP curves, and also reliable atom-projected DOS, directly based on plane-wave DFT output as given by the VASP or ABINIT or Quantum ESPRESSO packages.

Note for industrial users: LOBSTER is an academic-only computer program, not permitted to be used for profit-oriented research (e.g., in industrial laboratories). If you are from industry, please visit Wellenfunktion GmbH which provides the long awaited ORBITAL^TM software package. ORBITAL^TM has been built for industry, a commercial product, much faster in numerical performance and also easier to handle. Wellenfunktion GmbH also offers academic versions of ORBITAL^TM at significantly lower prizes.

After downloading the package, please take a few minutes to read the instructions in the manual; everything is detailed there. We have also packed a few example files for an easy start. Should there be any questions or problems, do not hesitate to contact us via mail (at) cohp (dot) de.

If you would like to visualize your LOBSTER results, we recommend to use wxDragon. You can download the public version for Windows and Linux systems here:

wxDragon (Windows)
wxDragon (Linux)

For postprocessing LOBSTER results, we also recommend to use LOPOSTER, to be downloaded from the Github Repository.

IMPORTANT: if you would like to be informed about future releases, please also consider registration at LOBSTER's mailing list by sending a short message (using the subject "subscribe") to cohp-request (at) lists (dot) rwth-aachen (dot) de. Thank you.

Current Version

Older versions

LOBSTER 5.1.1 (2024-09-26)