Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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5395759 | Journal of Electron Spectroscopy and Related Phenomena | 2015 | 6 Pages |
Abstract
We investigate the unoccupied Rashba-type spin-orbit split band structure of the commensurate and incommensurate Bi monolayer on Cu(1Â 1Â 1) with spin- and angle-resolved two-photon-photoemission spectroscopy. Because of the unique geometrical structure of these Bi monolayers on Cu(1Â 1Â 1), it can be expected that both in-plane and out-of-plane potential gradients play an important role for the Rashba-type spin-structure in these systems. Our spin-resolved data of spin-split states in Bi/Cu(1Â 1Â 1) confirm the expected Rashba behavior of the in-plane spin-components that is caused by the out-of-plane potential gradient. But in addition, we indeed find out-of-plane spin components with different magnitudes in both monolayer Bi/Cu(1Â 1Â 1) systems, which we therefore attribute to the structurally induced in-plane potential gradients.
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Authors
S. Jakobs, A. Ruffing, D. Jungkenn, M. Cinchetti, S. Mathias, M. Aeschlimann,