Structure Analysis using Time-of-Flight Momentum Microscopy with Hard X-rays: Status and Prospects

Abstract

X-ray photoelectron diffraction (XPD) has developed into a powerful technique for the structural analysis of solids. Extension of the technique into the hard-X-ray range (hXPD) gives access to true bulk information. Here we give a status report on hXPD experiments using a novel full-field imaging technique: Time-of-flight momentum microscopy (ToF-MM). A special variant of ToF-MM is capable of recording high kinetic energies (up to >7keV) and enlarged k-fields-of-view. We present applications that are specific for high kinetic energies. The strong site specificity of hXPD is exemplified for NbSe2, the cubic-to-tetragonal transition in SrTiO3 and the zinc-blende structure in epitaxial GaAs films. Bloch-wave calculations show a very good agreement with experiment and reveal fingerprint-like signatures of emitter sites in host lattices. We show a dopant-site analysis in two semiconductors (Mn in GaAs and Te in Si). Hard-X-ray ARPES plus core-level hXPD enable eliminating the strong diffraction signature imprinted in HARPES maps.

40 pages, 8 figures

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