Journal
APPLIED SURFACE SCIENCE
Volume 253, Issue 8, Pages 4036-4040Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.apsusc.2006.08.033
Keywords
high temperature STM; STS; gold; resonant image states
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Scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) and spectroscopy (STS) were used to study the electronic structure of Au(1 1 1) surface in the range of 2-5.5 eV above the Fermi level. In this paper, we concentrate firstly on the position of the upper band gap edge (BE) existing in [1 1 1] direction in Au(1 1 1) and secondly on the position of the resonant image potential surface state (RIS) located in the bulk states approximately 1.1 eV above BE. The experiment was carried out in UHV at two temperatures 294 K and 580 K. Our high temperature STS (HT-STS) results clearly show the presence of RIS and BE local maxima at both temperatures. What is more, a slight shift towards the Fermi level of BE and RIS was observed. Those shifts were the consequence of the change of [1 1 1] band gap and lowering gold work function due to the thermal extension of interatomic distances. Finally, estimation of the work function was given at 294 K and 580 K. (c) 2006 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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