Exciting prospects for solids: Exact-exchange based functionals meet quasiparticle energy calculations

Focussing on spectroscopic aspects of semiconductors and insulators we will illustrate how quasiparticle energy calculations in the G(0)W(0) approximation can be successfully combined with density-functional theory calculations in the exact-exchange optimised effective potential approach (OEPx) to achieve a first principles description of the electronic structure that overcomes the limitations of local- or gradient-corrected DFT functionals (LDA and GGA). (c) 2008 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim.