Nearly Massless Electrons in the Silicon Interface with a Metal Film

Details Nearly Massless Electrons in the Silicon Interface with a Metal Film Nearly Massless Electrons in the Silicon Interface with a Metal Film

2010-05-24

arxiv.org/abs/1005.4369v1

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 246803 (2010)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Materials Science

4 pages, 4 figures, accepted for publication in Physical Review Letters

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevLett.104.246803

We demonstrate the realization of nearly massless electrons in the most widely used device material, silicon, at the interface with a metal film. Using angle-resolved photoemission, we found that the surface band of a monolayer lead film drives a hole band of the Si inversion layer formed at the interface with the film to have nearly linear dispersion with an effective mass about 20 times lighter than bulk Si and comparable to graphene. The reduction of mass can be accounted for by repulsive interaction between neighboring bands of the metal film and Si substrate. Our result suggests a promising way to take advantage of massless carriers in silicon-based thin-film devices, which can also be applied for various other semiconductor devices.

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