Electronic structure evolution during the growth of ultra-thin insulator films on semiconductors: from interface formation to bulk-like CaF2/Si(111) films
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Andreas Klust, ∗ Taisuke Ohta, † Aaron A. Bostwick, † Eli Rotenberg, Qiuming Yu, Fumio S. Ohuchi, and Marjorie A. Olmstead University of Washington, Department of Physics, Box 351560, Seattle, WA 98195, USA University of Washington, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Box 352120, Seattle, WA 98195, USA Advanced Light Source, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA. (Dated: October 19, 2005)
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