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Angle-resolved Photoemission Spectroscopy At Ultra-low Temperatures
Published on: October 9, 2012
Resonant photoemission spectroscopy of atomic layer Fe2N on Cu(111) with continuous angular rotation of linearly
1Institute for Solid State Physics, The University of Tokyo, Kashiwa, Chiba 277-8581, Japan.
Abstract:
Linearly polarized soft x-rays provide information about electronic or magnetic anisotropy through absorption into materials or generation of photoelectrons. In order to change the relative angle between linear polarization and sample crystalline axes, either x-ray polarization or the sample needs to be rotated. Due to difficulties of polarization control in the soft x-ray range, a conventional approach was to rotate the sample. However, this method is not compatible, for example, withoperandomeasurements on non-uniform samples where sample size and rotational motion are severely restricted. At BL07LSU of SPring-8, we developed a new method to rotate the linear polarization angle using a segmented cross undulator. We report an application of this linear polarization rotation to resonant photoemission spectroscopy on an magnetic atomic layer Fe2N on Cu(111) to probe the electronic anisotropy of the 3dstates in the vicinity of the Fermi level.
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