Arsenic-terminated Ge(111): An ideal 1×1 surface

Abstract

Arsenic interaction with the Ge(111) surface results in the replacement of the outer Ge layer with an As layer. This system has a 1\ifmmode\times\else\texttimes\fi{}1 symmetry and the calculated positions of the As atoms are very close to the positions expected from bulk bond lengths. Ge(111):As is thus a model ideal surface and a comparison is made of an experimental and a theoretical determination of its fully occupied surface band.