Surface stoichiometry and valence electronic structure of YBa2Cu3O7−x
- 15 December 1989
- journal article
- research article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Journal of Applied Physics
- Vol. 66 (12), 5958-5961
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.343623
Abstract
We report x‐ray photoemission data from YBa2Cu3O7−x showing that the measured composition and the electronic structure changes significantly upon the photoelectron escape depth. For large take‐off angles the valence band spectrum near the Fermi edge is well structured and shows a number of features arising from Cu‐O hybrid states. Their intensities are drastically reduced in the energy distribution curves measured at grazing angles. These results are interpreted assuming that the surface is mainly composed by Ba‐O planes. This interpretation is shown to be consistent with electronic structure calculations for the bulk and for a YBa2Cu3O7−x surface terminated with a Ba plane and produced by cutting the Cu2 O4 bond normal to the c axis. The local density of states calculated on this basis and taking into account electron correlation effects is shown to be consistent with many significant behaviors experimentally observed in the YBa2Cu3O7−x valence band.Keywords
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