Hydrogen on III-V (110) surfaces : Charge accumulation and STM signatures

• The behavior of hydrogen on the 110 surfaces of III-V semiconductors is examined using ab initio density functional theory. It is confirmed that adsorbed hydrogen should lead to a charge accumulation layer in the case of InAs, but shown here that it should not do so for other related III-V semiconductors. It is shown that the hydrogen levels due to surface adsorbed hydrogen behave in a material dependent manner related to the ionicity of the material, and hence do not line up in the universal manner reported by others for hydrogen in the bulk of semiconductors and insulators. This fact, combined with the unusually deep Gamma point conduction band well of InAs, accounts for the occurrence of an accumulation layer on InAs(110) but not elsewhere. Furthermore, it is shown that adsorbed hydrogen should be extremely hard to distinguish from native defects (particularly vacancies) using scanning tunneling and atomic force microscopy, on both InAs(110) and other III-V (110) surfaces.

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NATURVETENSKAP  -- Fysik (hsv//swe)

NATURAL SCIENCES  -- Physical Sciences (hsv//eng)

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Scanning-Tunneling-Microscopy

Semiconductor Surfaces

Gaas(110) Surfaces

Inp(110) Surfaces

Structural-Properties

Electronic-Structure

Si(111)-7x7 Surface

Gap(110) Surfaces

Vacancy Formation

Low-Temperatures

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