Thirty years of atomic and electronic structure determination of surfaces of tetrahedrally coordinated compound semiconductors

Abstract

Surface Science has evolved considerably since the early 1960's. Experimental and theoretical techniques pioneered twenty to thirty years ago have been developed into sophisticated tools which today allow systematic and almost routine determinations of atomic geometries, electronic structures, chemical compositions and surface energies of semiconductor surfaces. In this article, I review the part of the history of this work devoted to tetrahedrally coordinated compound semiconductor surfaces.