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SURFACE SCIENCE
Volume 606, Issue 1-2, Pages 28-33Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.susc.2011.08.017
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Scanning tunneling microscopy; Scanning tunneling spectroscopy; Surface steps; gallium arsenide
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- U.S. National Science Foundation [DMR-0856240]
- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft [Eb197/3-1]
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Steps on GaAs(110) surfaces, with step-normal vectors parallel to [001], are studied by scanning tunneling microscopy and spectroscopy. Two possible orientations of the steps occur, with outward normal vectors of [001] or [00 - 1], which in simple bulk-terminated form have Ga (cations) or As (anions) on their edges, respectively. The latter type of step in n-type or undoped material is found to retain its bulk-terminated form. A band of states is observed extending out from the valence band, associated with the dangling bonds of the terminating As atoms. It is argued that compensation of the dangling bonds on the step edges is the driving force for the step structure, producing reconstruction of the step edges in certain cases. (C) 2011 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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