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Cobaltocene Adsorption And Dissociation On Cu(1 1 1), Jaewu Choi, Peter A. Dowben Aug 2006

Cobaltocene Adsorption And Dissociation On Cu(1 1 1), Jaewu Choi, Peter A. Dowben

Peter Dowben Publications

Photoemission results indicate that the initial adsorption of cobaltocene on Cu(1 1 1) at 150 K leads to molecular fragmentation, but with subsequent cobaltocene exposures, molecular absorption occurs. The molecularly adsorbed species is either adsorbed with only a fraction of molecules adopting a preferential orientation along the surface normal or adsorbed with the molecular axis away from the surface normal. This adsorption behavior is compared to nickelocene and ferrocene adsorption.


Ƒ-Electron Correlations In Nonmagnetic Ce Studied By Means Of Spin-Resolved Resonant Photoemission, S. W. Yu, Takashi Komesu, B. W. Chung, Simon A. Morton, James G. Tobin, George Daniel Waddill Feb 2006

Ƒ-Electron Correlations In Nonmagnetic Ce Studied By Means Of Spin-Resolved Resonant Photoemission, S. W. Yu, Takashi Komesu, B. W. Chung, Simon A. Morton, James G. Tobin, George Daniel Waddill

Physics Faculty Research & Creative Works

We have studied the spin-spin coupling between two f electrons of nonmagnetic Ce by means of spin-resolved resonant photoemission using circularly polarized synchrotron radiation. The two f electrons participating in the 3d5/2-->4f resonance process are coupled in a singlet while the coupling is veiled in the 3d3/2-->4f process due to an additional Coster-Kronig decay channel. The identical singlet coupling is observed in the 4d-->4f resonance process. Based on the Ce measurements, it is argued that spin-resolved resonant photoemission is one approach to study the correlation effects, particularly in the form of spin, in the rare earths.