Photoelectron spectromicroscopy at chalcopyrite films.

CuInSe₂ films were prepared by MBE on GaAs (111) substrates. ZnSe and ZnO are subsequently deposited in situ by MOMBE. Interface parameters like band offsets and morphology are studied by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) and Low energy electron diffraction (LEED).

Electronic structure of methoxy-, bromo-, and nitrobenzene grafted onto Si(111).

The properties of Si(111) surfaces grafted with benzene derivatives were investigated using ultraviolet photoemission spectroscopy (UPS) and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS). The investigated materials were nitro-, bromo-, and methoxybenzene layers (-C(6)H(4)-X, with X = NO(2), Br, O-CH(3)) deposited from diazonium salt solutions in a potentiostatic electrochemical process. The UPS spectra of the valence band region are governed by the molecular orbital density of states of the adsorbates, which is modified from the isolated state in the gas phase due to molecule-molecule and molecule-substrate interaction.

Electron binding energies of hydrated H3O+ and OH-: photoelectron spectroscopy of aqueous acid and base solutions combined with electronic structure calculations.

The electronic structure of hydrated H3O+ and OH- is probed in a water jet by photoelectron spectroscopy employing 100 eV photons. The first ionization potential for OH- at 9.2 eV and the second ionization potential for H3O+ at 20 eV are resolved, corresponding to the removal of an electron from the 2ppi highest occupied molecular orbital and from the 1e orbital, respectively.