Observation of a Change in the Surface Electronic Structure of Pt(100) Induced by Reconstruction

H.P. Bonzel, C. R. Helms, S. R. Kelemen

Physical Review Letters · 1975 · 133 citations · 14 references

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Abstract

We investigated the clean surface fo a Pt(100) single crystal in its stable (5 \ifmmode\times\else\texttimes\fi{} 20) and metastable (1 \ifmmode\times\else\texttimes\fi{} 1) configurations by ultraviolet photoelectron spectroscopy, Auger electron spectroscopy, and low-energy electron diffraction. The photoelectron spectrum of the (1 \ifmmode\times\else\texttimes\fi{} 1) surface for $h\ensuremath{\nu}=11.6\ensuremath{-}40.8$ eV is characterized by a narrow peak 0.25 eV below the Fermi level; it is suggested that this peak is due to a maximum in the surface density of states associated with an electronic surface resonance or surface state on the (1 \ifmmode\times\else\texttimes\fi{} 1) surface.

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