A cubic coil system, which combines three sets of cubic triple square coils orthogonal to each other, is proposed, constructed, and tested. This coil system can generate a 0.66% (=±0.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe reason for the absence of superconductivity in SrIrO was estimated by photoelectron spectra and photoelectron holograms. The analysis of the La photoelectron hologram concluded that La atoms are substituted to Sr sites. Two O 1s peaks were observed and were identified as the oxygens in the IrO and SrO planes by photoelectron holography and density functional theory (DFT) calculations.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFVariable-deceleration-ratio wide-acceptance-angle electrostatic lens (VD-WAAEL) is proposed as a potential technique for two-dimensional angular and energy analysis. The basic features of the lens are studied using the charge simulation method and ray tracing calculation. The lens uses an ellipsoidal mesh electrode and allows a wide acceptance angle of ±50°.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFWe studied the synthesis of nanocomposite materials consisting of noble metal clusters embedded in an oxide semiconductor matrix. The embedded nanostructures form in a simple self-organized single-step growth process. The primary interest is in developing materials for photo-electrochemical energy conversion where spatially inhomogeneous band structures can enhance photogenerated charge separation and carrier extraction from a semiconductor.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFFrom the C 1s and K 2p photoelectron holograms, we directly reconstructed atomic images of the cleaved surface of a bimetal-intercalated graphite superconductor, (Ca, K)C, which differed substantially from the expected bulk crystal structure based on x-ray diffraction (XRD) measurements. Graphene atomic images were collected in the in-plane cross sections of the layers 3.3 Å and 5.
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View Article and Find Full Text PDFHere, the experimental results of the method of filtering the effect of chromatic aberration for wide acceptance angle electrostatic lens-based system are described. This method can eliminate the effect of chromatic aberration from the images of a measured spectral image sequence by determining and removing the effect of higher and lower kinetic energy electrons on each different energy image, which leads to significant improvement of image and spectral quality. The method is based on the numerical solution of a large system of linear equations and equivalent with a multivariate strongly nonlinear deconvolution method.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFWhen a core level is excited by circularly polarized light, the angular momentum of light is transferred to the emitted photoelectron, which can be confirmed by the parallax shift of the forward focusing peak (FFP) direction in a stereograph of atomic arrangement. No angular momentum has been believed to be transferred to normal Auger electrons resulting from the decay process filling core hole after photoelectron ejection. We succeeded in detecting a non-negligible circular dichroism contrast in a normal Auger electron diffraction from a nonmagnetic Cu(001) surface far off from the absorption threshold.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFMonolayer and bilayer graphene films with a few hundred nm domain size were grown on ultraprecision figured 4H-SiC(0001) on-axis and 8 degrees -off surfaces by annealing in ultra-high vacuum. Using X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS), atomic force microscopy, reflection high-energy electron diffraction, low-energy electron diffraction (LEED), Raman spectroscopy, and scanning tunneling microscopy, we investigated the structure, number of graphene layers, and chemical bonding of the graphene surfaces. Moreover, the magnetic property of the monolayer graphene was studied using in-situ surface magneto-optic Kerr effect at 40 K.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThis article reports development of a practical laboratory hard X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (HXPS) system by combining a focused monochromatic Cr K(alpha) X-ray source, a wide angle acceptance objective lens and a high kinetic energy electron analyzer. The Cr K(alpha) source consists of a Cr target, a 15 kV focused electron gun, and a compact bent crystal monochromator. The X-ray spot size is variable from 10 microm (1.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFUp until now there has been no direct method for detecting the electronic and magnetic structure of each atomic layer at the surface, which is an essential analysis technique for nanotechnology. For this purpose, we have developed a new method, diffraction spectroscopy, based on the photon energy dependence of the angular distribution of Auger electron emission. We have applied this method to analyze the magnetic structure of a Ni ultrathin film on a Cu(001) surface around the spin reorientation transition.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThis paper provides a way of focusing wide-angle charged-particle beams in multiple lens systems. In previous papers [H. Matsuda, Phys.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPhys Rev E Stat Nonlin Soft Matter Phys
September 2006
Recently, it was shown that using an ellipsoidal mesh in an einzel-type lens, spherical aberration can be corrected over a wide acceptance angle of up to 120 degrees. The present paper creates the possibility for beam analysis by achieving dramatic improvements in deceleration lens capabilities. This provides a scheme for simultaneous angular distribution measurement suitable for application to high-energy charged-particle beams up to around 10 keV.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe in-plane dispersion of the hole subband (HSB) in a Si quantum well is obtained for the first time by applying angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy and surface science techniques. The entire shape of the HSB over a wide ranged wave vector, including admixing of heavy and light hole subbands around the crossing point and the camelback structure inducing negative effective mass, is visualized directly. Energy separations between the subbands are quantitatively explained.
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