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A metallic semiconductor surface

A well-established principle of semiconductor surface science is that chemisorption tends to eliminate intrinsic surface states. But results for cubic SiC show that this is not universally true.

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Figure 1: Models of the clean and H-covered SiC (100) 3 × 2 surfaces studied by Derycke et al.2

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Bermudez, V. A metallic semiconductor surface. Nature Mater 2, 218–219 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1038/nmat861

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