The current situation is reviewed and discussed, with emphasis on theoretical issues. This is a critical review essay, rather than an extended comprehensive survey. The literature reviewed is incidentally used to build up a logically consistent discussion, ignoring historical order. Metal-semiconductor junctions are only very briefly discussed, as a natural extension of the main theme of the paper.
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Garcı́a-Moliner et al. (1976) studied this question.
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