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The excess tunneling current due to electron-surface-plasmon interactions in semiconductor-metal tunnel junctions is calculated. The expression for the second derivative of this excess current, which corresponds to structure in d²IdV² as an increase in conductance at bias voltages near the surface plasmon energy in the semiconductor, agrees with experiment both in magnitude and line shape.
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Ngai et al. (1969) studied this question.
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