Abstract
We have determined vs energy-band dispersions of cobalt for and bands along the hexagonal axis ([0001] direction) via angle-resolved photoelectron spectroscopy from a Co(0001) face using synchrotron radiation. We obtain the magnetic exchange splitting at for the upper band (0.85 ± 0.2 eV) and lower band (1.2±0.3 eV). The overall occupied -band width (∼ 3.8 eV at ) is about 20% narrower than a state-of-the-art self-consistent band calculation using a local-density theory of exchange correlation. The top of the majority-spin bands is 0.35 eV below . There is a small -centered minority-electron pocket at which explains previously unidentified de Haas-van Alphen orbits. We present dipole selection rules for the axis of an hcp lattice and show that the number of allowed transitions is reduced drastically for emission along the axis. The allowed transitions can be interpreted in the same way as those for emission normal to a (111) face of an fcc lattice.
- Received 16 October 1979
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.21.3207
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