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Valence-Band UPS, 6p Core-Level XPS Photoemission Spectroscopy, and Low-Energy Electron Diffraction of a Uranium (001) Single Crystal

C. P. Opeil, R. K. Schulze, M. E. Manley, J. C. Lashley, W. L. Hults, R. J. Hanrahan,, J. L. Smith, B. Mihaila, K. B. Blagoev, R. C. Albers, P. B. Littlewood

cond-mat.otherarXiv:cond-mat/0604402

Abstract

Valence-band ultraviolet photoemission spectroscopy (UPS) at 173K and 6p core-level X-ray photoemission spectroscopy (XPS) at room temperature were performed on a high quality uranium single crystal. Significant agreement is found with first-principles electronic band-structure calculations, using a generalized gradient approximation (GGA). In addition, using Low Energy Electron Diffraction (LEED) for the (001) surface, we find a well-ordered orthorhombic crystallographic structure representative of the bulk material.

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