Optical absorption of a cleaved surface of germanium shows a band at energies smaller than the gap, that is removed when the surface is oxidized. The band is assumed to be due to optical excitation of a surface state practically coincident with the top of the valence band to a set of states 0.16 eV below the bottom of the conduction band.
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Chiarotti et al. (1968) studied this question.
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