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Paper
Inverse photoemission from V, Cr, Mn, Fe, and Co monolayers on Ag(100)
Abstract
Well ordered 1×1 monolayers of transition metals are grown on Ag(100) at 440 K. Using inverse photoemission we obtain the position of the unoccupied 3d states versus band filling. At k=0 the minority-spin state of Δ5 symmetry (dxz,yz) is found at 2.1, 1.6, 1.4, 0.5, and 0.25 eV above the Fermi level for V, Cr, Mn, Fe, and Co monolayers. For V a majority-spin feature is observed at 0.7 eV. For the Cr monolayer we obtain a magnetic exchange splitting of 2.7 eV using previous photoemission results for the majority-spin state. This is 20 times as large as in bulk Cr, suggesting a strong enhancement of the local magnetic moment in the monolayer. Our results are consistent with first-principles calculations for the magnetic configurations with the lowest energy, i.e., antiferromagnetic V, Cr, and Mn, and ferromagnetic Fe and Co monolayers on Ag(100). © 1993 The American Physical Society.