A Primer in Photoemission

Photoemission is a spectroscopic technique to study the physicochemical properties of surfaces as well as their electronic properties, since it allows you to determine the band structure of the materials. This book introduces the basic concepts of photoemission: core level and valence band photoemission, together with many recent developments on current topics. Two levels of reading are presented: an elementary primer based on a mono-electronic approach to qualitatively understand the interest of this spectroscopy and a deeper level supported on a many-body approach that allows you to get access to the interactions at the origin of the electronic properties of condensed matter. This book addresses a broad span of readers, from undergraduate students for the more elementary aspects, to the research scientists specialized in the technique for the concepts and the application examples.

Antonio Tejeda is a research professor at CNRS, working at the Laboratoire de Physique des Solides located at the University of South Paris and he is also associate scientist at the SOLEIL synchrotron facility. He is the author of more than seventy articles on low-dimensional systems, some of them addressing the public at large.

Daniel Malterre is professor at the Lorraine University and performs his research at Institut Jean Lamour in the “surfaces and spectroscopies” team that he founded. He is the author of more than one hundred and thirty publications on different disciplines, ranging from strongly correlated systems to surface physics.