Schottky Barriers without Midgap States
- 2 August 1976
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 37 (5) , 312-313
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.37.312
Abstract
It is found that modification of the surface reconstruction on clean silicon surfaces could automatically bring the Fermi energy at the surface to midgap. The mechanism does not depend upon the existence of surface states in the gap. The corresponding effect is not expected on polar semiconductor surfaces.Keywords
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