Abstract
Unoccupied electronic states in solids and at solid surfaces are usually studied by inverse photoemission. An alternative method is two-photon photoemission. It is superior in resolution but limited to states of sufficiently long lifetime below the vacuum level. So far this method has mainly been applied to image-potential states on metal surfaces. On Ag(111) and Cu(111) a narrow surface state below the Fermi level serves as the initial state, which results in a pronounced resonance in the two-photon photoemission. Ni(111) shows similar results. In the resonance the image-potential state is so highly populated that electron-electron interaction leads to an Auger-type process. Nevertheless, the system is not so greatly disturbed as to show deviations from the one-photon photoemission results concerning the occupied states. Ag(100) and Cu(100) have a smooth continuum of initial states. Consequently, no resonance occurs. The binding energy does not depend on the material but changes with surface orientation: it is about 0.80 eV at the (111) surfaces and about 0.55 eV at the (100) surfaces. The effective mass is free electron like except on Ag(111), where it is 30% heavier. The lifetime on Ag(100) is about 20 fs. The agreement with theory is excellent in some cases and only fair in others.
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