Unoccupied electronic band structure of an ordered potassium layer on copper: Cu(111)-(2 x 2)K.

Abstract

The unoccupied electronic structure of potassium on Cu(111) is determined by angle-resolved inverse photoemission. The observed spectral features are assigned to unoccupied 4p and 3d states of potassium. For a complete monolayer an ordered (2\ifmmode\times\else\texttimes\fi{}2) overlayer structure is formed. The dispersion of the K-induced states is determined and compared to a recent band-structure calculation for an isolated K monolayer.