Detection of a Fermi-level crossing in Si(557)-Au with inverse photoemission
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Abstract
The unoccupied energy bands of the quasi-one-dimensional (1D) Si(557)-Au system have been studied with momentum-resolved inverse photoemission. A band is found that lies $(0.4\ifmmode\pm\else\textpm\fi{}0.4)\phantom{\rule{0.3em}{0ex}}\mathrm{eV}$ above the Fermi level at the center of the surface Brillouin zone $(\overline{\ensuremath{\Gamma}})$. It disperses to higher binding energy, along the $\overline{\ensuremath{\Gamma}K}$ direction, and crosses the Fermi level at ${k}_{\ensuremath{\Vert}}=0.5\ifmmode\pm\else\textpm\fi{}0.1\phantom{\rule{0.3em}{0ex}}{\mathrm{\AA{}}}^{\ensuremath{-}1}$. The corresponding direction in real space is parallel to both the rows of silicon adatoms and the rows of embedded gold atoms that are distinctive features of this surface reconstruction. The location of the crossing is in good agreement with previously published photoemission data [Altmann et al., Phys. Rev. B 64, 035406 (2001); Ahn et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 196403 (2003)], where two closely spaced bands were found to disperse from the $\overline{K}$ zone boundary to lower binding energy and then cross the Fermi level. In addition to the band mentioned above, a band was found that has parabolic dispersion along $\overline{\ensuremath{\Gamma}K}$, the direction that is parallel to the rows of embedded gold atoms. The band minimum for the parabolic band lies $(0.8\ifmmode\pm\else\textpm\fi{}0.4)\phantom{\rule{0.3em}{0ex}}\mathrm{eV}$ below the vacuum level and it has an effective mass ${m}^{*}=(1.0\ifmmode\pm\else\textpm\fi{}0.1){m}_{e}$, where ${m}_{e}$ is the free electron mass. Perpendicular to the rows of gold atoms, as expected for a state with quasi-1D symmetry, it has flat dispersion. This band may be an image state resonance, overlapping the silicon conduction band continuum, and it is spatially localized to the edge of the silicon terraces.
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