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When contact is made, electrons flow from the metal into
the empty states in the valence band. This results is a curvature of the
bands upwards as the Fermi energy comes into equilibrium with the
metal Fermi level.
When equilibrium is reached, there is a region which has
been depleted of holes, and a energy barrier for holes to reach the
interface with the metal and recombine with an electron there.