Ah! Thank you. Ok, the form will be something like this (for a uniform electrical field of +0.5 eV/angs along the Z direction), but I'm still not sure how to interpret the FUNCTION keyword and if I'm getting this right. Any ideas? &EXTERNAL_POTENTIAL FUNCTION (A/B)*Z PARAMETERS A B VALUES [eV] 5.0 [angstrom] 10.0 &END