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I investigated the spectra of well-ordered semiconductor surfaces within an ab-initio framework. Both the quasi-particle spectrum of electron and hole states and the optical differential reflectivity spectrum were addressed. As examples, I discuss the spectra of three surfaces: Si(111)-(2×1), hydrogenated H:Si(111)-(1×1), and Si adatom-terminated 6H-SiC(0001)-(×). I studied a number of physical features beyond the single-particle band-structure picture. In the case of Si(111)-(2×1), the dangling-bond surface states give rise to a surface exciton which dominates the differential reflectivity spectrum. In the case of 6H-SiC(0001)-(×), a Mott-Hubbard metal-insulator transition is observed. All calculations were performed within many-body perturbation theory, employing single- and two-particle Green functions. The solutions of the corresponding equations of motion yielded the observable excitations, i.e., single-particle electron and hole excitations, as well as bound and resonant electron-hole pair excitations.
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Received: 28 April 2000 / Accepted: 19 June 2000 / Published online: 7 March 2001
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Rohlfing, M. Quasiparticle spectrum and optical excitations of semiconductor surfaces . Appl Phys A 72, 413–419 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1007/s003390100754
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