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Cleaved {110} Surfaces of III–V and II–VI Compound Semiconductors
Abstract Compound semiconductors, which crystallize in the cubic zincblende structure, cleave along {110} planes. Such planes contain the same number of anions and cations per unit area and are thus intrinsically neutral. With {110} surfaces of compound semiconductors no reconstructions are observed but the surface atoms relax from the positions expected for a bulklike termination such that the cation-anion zigzag chains become tilted with the anions being raised. As a result of this relaxation, the total valence charge remains the same around surface and bulk atoms. The dangling-bond surface states are lower in energy at the surface anions than at the surface cations. The band-structure term of the total energy is thus lowered with respect to a bulklike termination when the dangling bonds are completely occupied at the anions but empty at the cations. The surface relaxation indeed shifts the cation dangling-bond band to above the conduction-band minimum. The lowering of the band-structure energy obviously overcompensates the strain energy correlated with the tilting of the cation-anion chains.
Cleaved {110} Surfaces of III–V and II–VI Compound Semiconductors
Abstract Compound semiconductors, which crystallize in the cubic zincblende structure, cleave along {110} planes. Such planes contain the same number of anions and cations per unit area and are thus intrinsically neutral. With {110} surfaces of compound semiconductors no reconstructions are observed but the surface atoms relax from the positions expected for a bulklike termination such that the cation-anion zigzag chains become tilted with the anions being raised. As a result of this relaxation, the total valence charge remains the same around surface and bulk atoms. The dangling-bond surface states are lower in energy at the surface anions than at the surface cations. The band-structure term of the total energy is thus lowered with respect to a bulklike termination when the dangling bonds are completely occupied at the anions but empty at the cations. The surface relaxation indeed shifts the cation dangling-bond band to above the conduction-band minimum. The lowering of the band-structure energy obviously overcompensates the strain energy correlated with the tilting of the cation-anion chains.
Cleaved {110} Surfaces of III–V and II–VI Compound Semiconductors
Professor Dr. Mönch, Winfried (author)
Third, Revised Edition
2001-01-01
40 pages
Article/Chapter (Book)
Electronic Resource
English
Compound Semiconductor , Scan Tunneling Microscopy Image , Electronic Surface State , Surface Phonon , Energy Distribution Curve Chemistry , Physical Chemistry , Optics and Electrodynamics , Electronics and Microelectronics, Instrumentation , Surfaces and Interfaces, Thin Films , Optical and Electronic Materials , Characterization and Evaluation of Materials
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