Department of Physics, University of Lancaster, Lancaster, England;Battelle Memorial Institute, 505 King Avenue, Columbus, Ohio 43201, U.S.A.;Department of Experimental Physics, University of Wroclaw, Wroclaw, Poland
Abstract:
A Green's function method is used to investigate the role of relativistic effects in determining the electronic states in a semi-infinite Kronig-Penney model. Various boundary conditions are considered and it is found that relativistic effects do not introduce new surface states.