Chemical Bonding and Fermi Level Pinning at Metal-Semiconductor Interfaces

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 84, Issue 26, 2000, Pages 6078-6081

  Tung, Raymond T ^a  

^a LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL BONDS; FERMI LEVEL; POLARIZATION; POLYCRYSTALLINE MATERIALS;

FERMI LEVEL PINNING; SCHOTTKY BARRIER HEIGHT;

SEMICONDUCTOR METAL BOUNDARIES;

EID: 0342955088     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.84.6078     Document Type: Article

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