Adatom-induced donor states during the early stages of Schottky-barrier formation: Ga, In, and Pb on Si(113)
- 15 June 1991
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review B
- Vol. 43 (17) , 14157-14163
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevb.43.14157
Abstract
We performed angle-resolved ultraviolet and soft-x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy for the early stages of Schottky-barrier formation of Ga, In, and Pb on Si(113) at room temperature. In the coverage region below 0.1 monolayer a band-bending behavior, typical for donor states, is found. The energies of the adatom-induced donor states in the band gap depend on the adatoms. The Schottky barrier reaches its final value at a coverage of about one monolayer. The values are 0.35 eV above the valence-band maximum for In and Ga and 0.425 eV for Pb. Measurements with Xe interlayers were made to verify that these interfaces are not reactive.Keywords
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