Resonant Photoemission in Nickel Metal

Abstract

A strong resonance effect has been observed for the first time in photoemission: This happens on a metallic nickel (100) surface when the photon energy is close to that of the $3p$ energy level. The effect is interpreted as the autionization of an excited quasidiscrete atomic configuration into a continuum of excitations with two holes in the $3d$ shell.