Low work function in the 122-family of iron-based superconductors

Pfau, H.; Soifer, H.; Sobota, J. A.; Gauthier, A.; Rotundu, C. R.; Palmstrom, J. C.; Fisher, I. R.; Chen, G.-Y.; Wen, H.-H.; Shen, Z.-X.; Kirchmann, P. S.

doi:10.1103/PhysRevMaterials.4.034801

Title: Low work function in the 122-family of iron-based superconductors

Journal Article · 04 March 2020 · Physical Review Materials

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevMaterials.4.034801 · OSTI ID:1605595

^[1]; Soifer, H. ^[2]; Sobota, J. A. ^[3]; Gauthier, A. ^[3]; Rotundu, C. R. ^[4]; Palmstrom, J. C. ^[3]; Fisher, I. R. ^[3]; Chen, G.-Y. ^[5]; Wen, H.-H. ^[5]; Shen, Z.-X. ^[6]; Kirchmann, P. S. ^[4]

Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States). Advanced Light Source (ALS); SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States). Stanford Institute for Materials and Energy Science (SIMES)
SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States). Stanford Institute for Materials and Energy Science (SIMES); Tel Aviv Univ., Ramat Aviv (Israel)
SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States). Stanford Institute for Materials and Energy Science (SIMES); Stanford Univ., CA (United States). Geballe Lab. for Advanced Materials
SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States). Stanford Institute for Materials and Energy Science (SIMES)
Nanjing Univ. (China)
SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States). Stanford Institute for Materials and Energy Science (SIMES); Stanford Univ., CA (United States). Geballe Lab. for Advanced Materials and Dept. of Physics

Herein we determine the work functions of the iron arsenic compounds $A {Fe}_{2} {As}_{2}$ ( $A = Ca, Ba, Cs$ ) using photoemission spectroscopy to be 2.7 eV for ${CaFe}_{2} {As}_{2}$ , 1.8 eV for ${BaFe}_{2} {As}_{2}$ , and 1.3 eV for ${CsFe}_{2} {As}_{2}$ . The work functions of these 122 iron-based superconductors track those of the elementary metal $A$ but are substantially smaller. The most likely explanation of this observation is that the cleaving surface exposes only half an $A$ -layer. The low work function and good photoemission cross section of ${BaFe}_{2} {As}_{2}$ and ${CsFe}_{2} {As}_{2}$ enable photoemission even from a common white LED light.

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Research Organization:: SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (SLAC), Menlo Park, CA (United States); Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States). Advanced Light Source (ALS)

Sponsoring Organization:: Alexander von Humboldt Foundation; German Science Foundation (DFG); Gabilan Stanford Graduate Fellowship; National Science Foundation (NSF); USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES) (SC-22). Materials Sciences & Engineering Division

Grant/Contract Number:: AC02-76SF00515; DGE-114747; AC02-05CH11231

OSTI ID:: 1605595

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 1603199

Journal Information:: Physical Review Materials, Vol. 4, Issue 3; ISSN 2475-9953

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