Valence bands of thesemiconducting compounds
- 15 September 1976
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review B
- Vol. 14 (6), 2559-2568
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevb.14.2559
Abstract
Energy distribution spectra of photoelectrons excited by monochromatized radiation (XPS) from the valence bands of the semiconductors are presented. The results are compared with calculated densities of valence states obtained from parametrized tight-binding bands. The nearest-neighbor interaction parameters are determined so as to obtain theoretical total densities of valence states which fit the experimental XPS spectra and partial densities of states which agree with soft-x-ray emission data. The upper, -like valence bands so determined agree well with the empirical pseudopotential calculations of Au-Yang and Cohen while discrepancies appear for the lower bands. The parameters of the tight-binding model are compared with those reported recently by several authors for the elemental semiconductors.
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