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Surface electronic states at the boundary between two media

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The quantized electronic states of a particle whose motion is bounded in one direction by an uneven, impenetrable wall are investigated theoretically. It is shown that under certain conditions the presence of either a periodically uneven surface or a rough surface can give rise to surface states (caused by the unevenness) whose wave functions decay exponentially with distance from the wall.

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  1. Molniya Institute for Scientific Research and Projects, Kharkov Polytechnical University, 310085, Kharkov, Ukraine

    V. A. Pogrebnyak, V. M. Yakovenko & I. V. Yakovenko

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  1. V. A. Pogrebnyak
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Fiz. Tverd. Tela (St. Petersburg) 39, 1875–1878 (October 1997)

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Pogrebnyak, V.A., Yakovenko, V.M. & Yakovenko, I.V. Surface electronic states at the boundary between two media. Phys. Solid State 39, 1677–1680 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1134/1.1129887

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