Incidence angle dependent elastic electron reflection curves in the 0 to 30 eV range are measured on Cu(ll1) and Ni(ll1) using target current regime. They are compared with the calculated ones. Computations are made very fast using a simple approximation. The extrema of the reflection energy derivative are shown to correspond unambigiously to definite critical points of bands. These points are mapped when the energies of the experimental extrema are compared with the calculated ones. Varying the incidence angle, in this way bands in the variety of Brillouin 7one directions may be investigated.
Unoccupied density of states (DOS) for the polar (0001) Zn, (000 1) O and non-polar (10 10) ZnO surfaces and for a MgO(001)-c(2 × 2) thin film were studied using total current spectroscopy (TCS). TC spectra of the ZnO surfaces reveal the Zn 4s-O 2p band (6.2 eV) and two DOS maxima in the Zn 4p-O 2p band which exhibited different energy positions on the Zn-terminated (8.1 eV) and O-terminated (11.0 eV) surfaces. In the TC spectra of the MgO thin film, the energy location of Mg-derived (8.0, 14.8 and 21.0 eV) and O-derived (11.6, 14.2 and 18.5 eV) maxima of DOS were determined. Previously reported data on DOS of these materials is discussed, and it is shown that additional detailed information on the energy structure of unoccupied DOS in ZnO and MgO in the 5-25 eV range above E F has been found.
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