A review was presented of semiconductor surface reconstruction. Experimental and theoretical results on atomic geometry, electronic states, phonon modes and bonding were presented for clean cleaved, clean epitaxially grown, overlayer covered, surfactant-mediated epitaxially grown and defect-induced reconstructed semiconductor surfaces. Energetic aspects of reconstruction were discussed using empirical as well as first-principles theoretical approaches.

Theory of Semiconductor Surface Reconstruction. G.P.Srivastava: Reports on Progress in Physics, 1997, 60[5], 561-613