Ultrasoft pseudopotential with nlcc, gipaw reconstruction
with 2 projectors in p and d channels. 

This pseudopotential has been used to calculate Cu K-edge
XAS spectra in High-Tc compounds in the absence of a 
core-hole in the final state using the XSPECTRA code.

Results are published in 

"First-principles calculations of x-ray absorption in a scheme 
based on ultrasoft pseudopotentials: 
From alpha-quartz to high-Tc compounds",
Christos Gougoussis, Matteo Calandra, Ari P. Seitsonen, and Francesco Mauri
Phys. Rev. B 80, 075102 (2009) 

http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevB.80.075102

and in 

"Multiple pre-edge structures in Cu K-edge of high Tc cuprates 
revealed by high resolution x-ray absorption spectroscopy",
C. Gougoussis, J.-P. Rueff, M. Calandra, M. d'Astuto, I. Jarrige, H. Ishii, A. Shukla
arXiv:0909.0894
http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/0909.0894