Chiang, Cheng-Tien, Ellguth, Martin, Schumann, Florian O., Tusche, Christian, Kraska, Richard, Förster, Stefan, Widdra, Wolf
Electronic band structure of a two-dimensional oxide quasicrystal
Physical Review B 100, (12),pp 125149/1-11 (2019)
The valence band electronic structure of a BaTiO3-derived oxide quasicrystal (OQC) is studied by photoemission using momentum microscopy. An upward-dispersive Q2p band is identified, and it can be assigned to a combination of in-plane orbitals according to the symmetry and the overlap of the wave functions. In addition, the signature of Ti3d states near the Fermi level is observed, which results in a metallic character of the OQC with 3d1 occupation. Our experiments reveal two-dimensional electronic states within the OQC based on a symmetry-adapted decomposition of photoelectron intensity distribution in the momentum space.