Published in Phys. Rev. B 60, 4478 (1999).
Tunneling spectroscopy of the Si(111)2x1 surface
R. M. Feenstra
Department of Physics, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
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Abstract
Scanning tunneling spectroscopy has been used to observe electronic
band features of the Si(111)2x1 surface, focusing on the size
of the surface-state band gap. It is shown that peak positions in
the normalized conductance, (dI/dV)/(I/V), which are used to
characterize the tunneling spectrum, are shifted slightly towards zero
volts compared to the corresponding band structure features. A
corrected band gap of 0.59 +/- 0.04 eV is obtained for this surface.
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