It is shown that the applied voltage to keep a tunnel current between a metallic tip and a semiconductor surface drops mainly in the semiconductor bulk and that diffusion plays an important role in the conduction process. Calculations for the case of Si(111)7{}7 agree with experimental results for samples of very different doping.
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