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The energy dispersion of the unoccupied Dirac bands of the topological insulator Bi₂Se₃ has been studied up to large parallel momenta and intermediate state energies using a setup for laser-based time-resolved momentum microscopy with 6 eV probe-photons. A strongly momentum-dependent evolution of the topologically protected Dirac states into a conduction band resonance is observed, highlighting the anisotropy dictated by the symmetry of the surface. The results are in remarkable agreement with the theoretical surface spectrum obtained from a GW-corrected tight-binding model, suggesting the validity of the approach in the prediction of the quasiparticle excitation spectrum of large systems with non-trivial topology. After photoexcitation with 0.97 eV photons, assigned to a bulk valence band-conduction band transition, the out-of-equilibrium population of the surface state evolves on a multi-picosecond time scale, in agreement with a simple thermodynamical model with a fixed number of particles, suggesting a significant decoupling between bulk and surface states.

Stefano Ponzoni, Felix Paßlack, Matija Stupar, David Maximilian Janas, Giovanni Zamborlini, Mirko Cinchetti
Adv. Physics Res.2023, 2200016

Hemispherical deflection analyzers are the most widely used energy filters for state-of-the-art electron spectroscopy. Due to the high spherical symmetry, they are also well suited as imaging energy filters for electron microscopy. Here, we review the imaging properties of hemispherical deflection analyzers with emphasis on the application for cathode lens microscopy. In particular, it turns out that aberrations, in general limiting the image resolution, cancel out at the entrance and exit of the analyzer. This finding allows more compact imaging energy filters for momentum microscopy or photoelectron emission microscopy. For instance, high resolution imaging is possible, using only a single hemisphere. Conversely, a double pass hemispherical analyzer can double the energy dispersion, which means it can double the energy resolution at certain transmission, or can multiply the transmission at certain energy resolution.

C. Tusche, Y. J. Chen, C. M. Schneider and J. Kirschner
Ultramicroscopy 206 (2019)

The implementation of graphene in semiconducting technology requires precise knowledge about the graphene–semiconductor interface. In our work the structure and electronic properties of the graphene/n-Ge(110) interface are investigated on the local (nm) and macro (from μm to mm) scales via a combination of different microscopic and spectroscopic surface science techniques accompanied by density functional theory calculations. The electronic structure of freestanding graphene remains almost completely intact in this system, with only a moderate n-doping indicating weak interaction between graphene and the Ge substrate. With regard to the optimisation of graphene growth it is found that the substrate temperature is a crucial factor, which determines the graphene layer alignment on the Ge(110) substrate during its growth from the atomic carbon source. Moreover, our results demonstrate that the preparation route for graphene on the doped semiconducting material (n-Ge) leads to the effective segregation of dopants at the interface between graphene and Ge(110). Furthermore, it is shown that these dopant atoms might form regular structures at the graphene/Ge interface and induce the doping of graphene. Our findings help to understand the interface properties of the graphene–semiconductor interfaces and the effect of dopants on the electronic structure of graphene in such systems.

J. Tesch, F. Paschke, M. Fonin, M. Wietstruk, S. Böttcher, R. J. Koch, A. Bostwick, C. Jozwiak, E. Rotenberg, A. Makarova, B. Paulus, E. Voloshina, Y. Dedkov
Nanoscale, 10, pp. 6088-6098