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O: Fachverband Oberflächenphysik

O 97: Ultrafast Electron Dynamics at Surfaces and Interfaces III

O 97.3: Talk

Friday, April 5, 2019, 11:00–11:15, H16

Probing long-range structural dynamics of surfaces by umklapp process assisted time-resolved low-energy photoelectron spectroscopy — •Stephan Jauernik, Petra Hein, Max Gurgel, Julian Falke, and Michael Bauer — Institut für Experimentelle und Angewandte Physik, Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, Germany

Laser-based angle-resolved photoelectron spectroscopy is performed on tin-phthalocyanine (SnPc) adsorbed on silver Ag(111). Upon adsorption of SnPc, strongly dispersing bands are observed which are identified as secondary Mahan cones formed by surface umklapp processes acting on photoelectrons from the silver substrate as they transit through the ordered adsorbate layer. We show that the photoemission data carry quantitative structural information on the adsorbate layer similar to what can be obtained from a conventional low-energy electron diffraction (LEED) study. More specifically, we compare photoemission data and LEED data probing an incommensurate-to-commensurate structural phase transition of the adsorbate layer. Based on our results we propose that Mahan-cone spectroscopy operated in a pump-probe configuration can be used in the future to probe structural dynamics at surfaces with a temporal resolution in the sub-100-fs regime.

[1] S. Jauernik, P. Hein et al., Phys. Rev. B 97, 125413 (2018)

[2] G.D. Mahan, Phys. Rev. B 2, 4334 (1970)