Electronic Structure of Metal-Semiconductor Contacts

Interface and surface science have been important in the development of semicon­ ductor physics right from the beginning on. Modern device concepts are not only based on p-n junctions, which are interfaces between regions containing different types of dopants, but take advantage of the electronic properties of semiconductor­ insulator interfaces, heterojunctions between distinct semiconductors, and metal­ semiconductor contacts. The latter ones stood almost at the very beginning of semi­ co...