Synchrotron Radiation Photoemission Studies of Core Level Excitation Effects

摘要

The recent availability of intense polarized radiation tunable over the range 20-150 eV enables several core levels to be excited. Several remarkable effects have recently been reported when core excitation thresholds have been reached. For example, an increase in yield of 50% was observed in GaSe at the Se 3d threshold (h omega approx. = 57 eV). A considerable increase in photoemission intensity at 6 eV binding energy has been reported by Guillot et al. for Ni at the 3p threshold. A very careful study was made using the CIS, CFS, and EDC modes of photoemission spectroscopy of core threshold effects in Ni, Pt, and GaSe. A modulation of the Ni Fermi edge emission as a function of photon energy is found which is attributed to a configuration interaction between 3p exp 5 3d exp 10 4s and 3p exp 6 3d exp 8 4s epsilon f. Similar effects occur in Pt at the 4f threshold involving the configurations 4f exp 13 5d exp 10 6s and 4f exp 14 5d exp 8 6s. Further, the lineshapes of the Pt and Ni upper valence band CIS's resemble those obtained by electron energy loss (ELS) and photoabsorption, all of which can be fitted theoretically to a Fano model. Emission from levels lying well below the Fermi level often has superimposed contributions due to incoherent effects which complicate the interpretation. In cases in which core levels are excited well above threshold, the CIS technique may be used to examinefinal states. Of particular interest is the possible consequent determination of adsorbate site geometry. Data are presented for 2p emission from a c(2x2) Na overlayer on Ni. (ERA citation 04:041239)