The main factor that determines which of the two domains form upon reconstruction of the Si(110)"16 × 2" surface has been investigated. LEED and STM images showed that the domain orientation was independent of the heating current direction used to induce the Si(110)"16 × 2" reconstruction. Reciprocal-space lattice models of the reconstruction allowed for the correct identification of the domain orientations in the LEED images and confirm that the reconstruction is 2D-chiral. It is proposed that the domain orientation upon surface reconstruction is determined by the direction of monoatomic steps present on the Si(110) plane. This is in turn determined by the direction at which the surface is polished off-axis from the (110) plane.
A small, novel, cylindrically symmetric Mott electron polarimeter is described. The effective Sherman function, Seff, or analyzing power, for 20 kV Au target bias with a 1.3 keV energy loss window is 0.16 ± 0.01, where uncertainty in the measurement is due primarily to uncertainty in the incident electron polarization. For an energy loss window of 0.5 keV, Seff reaches its maximum value of 0.24 ± 0.02. The device's maximum efficiency, I/Io, defined as the detected count rate divided by the incident particle rate, is 3.7 ± 0.2 × 10(-4) at 20 keV. The figure-of-merit of the device, η, is defined as Seff (2)IIo and equals 9.0 ± 1.6 × 10(-6). Potential sources of false asymmetries due to detector electronic asymmetry and beam misalignment have been investigated. The new polarimeter's performance is compared to published results for similar compact retarding-field Mott polarimeters, and it is concluded that this device has a relatively large Seff and low efficiency. SIMION(®) electron trajectory simulations and Sherman function calculations are presented to explain the differences in performance between this device and previous designs. This design has an Seff that is insensitive to spatial beam fluctuations and, for an energy loss window>0.5 keV, negligible background due to spurious ion and X-ray production at the target.
It is shown that focusing circularly-polarized 800 nm light pulses of 100 fs duration on the tips of p-GaAs crystalline shards having no negative electron affinity (NEA) activation results in electron emission that is both fast and spin-polarized. The 400 fs duration of the emission process was determined by pump/probe measurements. The three samples we investigated produced electron polarizations of 13.1(9) %, 13.3(7) %, and 10.4(2) %. Emission currents ranged between 50 pA and 3 nA with a sample bias of −100 V and average laser power of 100 mW. The electron emission exhibited linear dichroism and was obtained under moderate vacuum conditions, similar to that of metallic tips. This source of spin-polarized electron pulses is "fast" in the sense that the electron emission process is of comparable duration to the laser pulses that initiate it.
The electronic structure of Si(110)"16 × 2" double-domain, single-domain and 1 × 1 surfaces have been investigated using spin-and angle-resolved photoemission at sample temperatures of 77 K and 300 K. Angle-resolved photoemission was conducted using horizontally-and vertically-polarised 60 eV and 80 eV photons. Band-dispersion maps revealed four surface states (S1 to S4) which were assigned to silicon dangling bonds on the basis of measured binding energies and photoemission intensity changes between horizontal and vertical light polarisations. Three surface states (S1, S2 and S4), observed in the Si(110)"16 × 2" reconstruction, were assigned to Si adatoms and Si atoms present at the edges of the corrugated terrace structure. Only one of the four surface states, S3, was observed in both the Si(110)"16 × 2" and 1 × 1 band maps and consequently attributed to the pervasive Si zigzag chains that are components of both the Si(110)"16 × 2" and 1 × 1 surfaces. A state in the bulk-band region was attributed to an in-plane bond. All data were consistent with the adatom-buckling model of the Si(110)"16 × 2" surface. Whilst room temperature measurements of Py and Pz were statistically compatible with zero, Px measurements of the enantiomorphic A-type and B-type Si(110)"16 × 2" surfaces gave small average polarisations of around 1.5% that were opposite in sign. Further measurements at 77 K on A-type Si(110)"16 × 2" surface gave a smaller value of +0.3%. An upper limit of ∼ 1% may thus be taken for the longitudinal polarisation.
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