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Si 2p Core-Level Shifts at the Si(001) Sio2 Interface - a First-Principles Study

Alfredo Pasquarello
1995
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Using a first-principles approach, we calculate core-level shifts at the Si(001)-Si02 interface. By fully relaxing interfaces between Si and tridymite, a crystalline form of Si02, we obtain interface models with good local structural properties and with no electronic states in the Si gap. Calculated values of Si 2p core-level shifts agree well with data from photoemission experiments and show a linear dependence on the number of nearest-neighbor oxygen atoms. Core-hole relaxation accounts for-50% of the total shifts, in good agreement with Auger experiments.

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Alfredo Pasquarello
1995
Journal Articles

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https://infoscience.epfl.ch/entities/publication/09522c2b-2ce5-438c-8901-99bafef04d1e

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