G. Lelay et al., SURFACE CORE-LEVEL SHIFTS OF SI(111)7X7 - A FUNDAMENTAL REASSESSMENT, Physical review. B, Condensed matter, 50(19), 1994, pp. 14277-14282
Extremely well resolved Si 2p core-level spectra from the clean Si(111
)7 X 7 surface have been obtained at similar to 100 K. Surface-shifted
components become visible to the naked eye. Contributions from the co
nstitutive entities of the complex 7 X 7 reconstruction, i.e., rest at
oms, adatoms, pedestal atoms, and dimer atoms are clearly identified.
This puts into new perspective the spectroscopy and physics (structure
and electronics) of this prototypical surface.