Optical absorption measurements of electron quantum confinement in Si(111)-2x1 surface chains

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作者
Bussetti, G. [1 ,2 ]
Violante, A. [1 ,2 ]
Bonanni, B. [1 ,2 ]
Cirilli, S. [1 ,2 ]
Goletti, C. [1 ,2 ]
Chiaradia, P. [1 ,2 ]
Chiarotti, G. [1 ,2 ]
Rohlfing, M. [3 ]
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[1] Univ Roma Tor Vergata, Dipartimento Fis, NAST, I-00173 Rome, Italy
[2] Univ Roma Tor Vergata, CNISM, I-00173 Rome, Italy
[3] Univ Osnabruck, Fachbereich Phys, D-4500 Osnabruck, Germany
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10.1103/PhysRevB.82.153304
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Optical experiments on the Si(111)-2x1 surface show that the absorption peak due to dangling-bond transitions exhibits a blueshift upon oxygen exposure. The effect is interpreted as due to quantum confinement of surface electrons in pi-bonded chains of atoms, whose length decreases with oxygen uptake (a particle-in-a-box effect, the box being one dimensional). This conclusion is supported by numerical simulation of the optical spectra.
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