Effects of interface morphology on Schottky-barrier heights: A case study on Al/GaAs(001)

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 56, Issue 23, 1997, Pages 14921-14924

  Ruini, A ^a   Resta, R ^a   Baroni, S ^a  

^a Centre Europeen de Calcul Atomique et Moleculaire   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000527647     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.56.14921     Document Type: Article

References (20)

1. See, for instance, W. Mönch, Electronic Structure of Metal-Semiconductor Contacts (Kluwer, Dordrecht, 1990).
2. J. Tersoff, in Metallization and Metal-Semiconductor Interfaces (Ref. 2), p. 281.
3. M. van Schilfgaarde and N. Newman, Phys. Rev. Lett. 65, 2728 (1990).
4. J. Vac. Sci. Technol. B 9, 2140 (1991).
5. R.G. Dandrea and C.B. Duke, J. Vac. Sci. Technol. A 11, 848 (1993).
6. J. Vac. Sci. Technol. B 11, 1553 (1993).
7. M. van Schilfgaarde, E.R. Weber, and N. Neuwman, Phys. Rev. Lett. 73, 581 (1994).
8. R.J. Needs, J.P.A. Charlesworth, and R.W. Godby, Europhys. Lett. 25, 81 (1994).
9. J. Bardi, N. Binggeli, and A. Baldereschi, Phys. Rev. B 54, R11 102 (1996).
10. C. Berthod, J. Bardi, N. Binggeli, and A. Baldereschi, J. Vac. Sci. Technol. B 14, 3000 (1996).
11. M. Peressi, N. Binggeli, and A. Baldereschi, J. Phys. D (to be published).
12. For Al we use the von Barth-Car pseudopotential form of Ref. 15 while for Ga and As we borrow those of X. Gonze, P. Käckell, and M. Scheffler, Phys. Rev. B 41, 12 264 (1990).
13. H.J. Monkhorst and J.P. Pack, Phys. Rev. B 13, 5188 (1976).
14. M. Methfessel and A.T. Paxton, Phys. Rev. B 40, 3616 (1989).
15. S. de Gironcoli, Phys. Rev. B 51, 6773 (1995).
16. R. Resta, Phys. Rev. B 44, 11 035 (1991).
17. K. Kunc, in Electronic Structure, Dynamics and Quantum Structural Properties of Condensed Matter, edited by J.T. Devreese and P. Van Camp (Plenum, New York, 1985), p. 227.
18. A. Ruini, S. Baroni, and R. Resta, cond-mat/970119h(unpublished).
19. R. Pick, M.H. Cohen, and R.M. Martin, Phys. Rev. B 1, 910 (1970).
20. M. Peressi, S. Baroni, A. Baldereschi, and R. Resta, Phys. Rev. B 41, 12 106 (1990).