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Arita, Masashi
Utsmi, Yuki
Morimoto, Osamu
Hadano, Yuta
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Physics
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We have performed a photoemission and inverse photoemission spectroscopic study of a narrow-gap semiconductor FeGa_3, in order to characterize the occupied and unoccupied electronic states. The energy-gap size was found to be ~0.4 eV, and the valence-band maximum (VBM) was located around the A point of the Brillouin zone. We observed a dispersive Ga 4sp derived band near the Fermi level (E_F), and Fe 3d narrow bands located at -0.5 and -1.1 eV away from E_F. In contrast to the case of FeSi, there was no temperature-dependent peak enhancement at the VBM on cooling. The observed density of states and band dispersions were reasonably reproduced by the LDA+U calculation with the on-site effective Coulomb interaction U_<eff> ~3 eV to the Fe 3d states. Present results indicate that, in spite of sizable U_<eff>/W ~0.6 (W: band width), electron correlation effects are not significant in FeGa_3 compared with FeSi since the VBM consists of the dispersive band with the reduced Fe 3d contribution, and the energy gap is large.
journal title
Physical Review B
volume
Volume 83
issue
Issue 24
start page
245116-1
end page
245116-5
date of issued
2011-06-22
publisher
The American Physical Society
issn
1098-0121
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language
eng
nii type
Journal Article
HU type
Journal Articles
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application/pdf
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Copyright (c) 2011 The American Physical Society
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department
Graduate School of Science
Graduate School of Advanced Sciences of Matter
Hiroshima Synchrotron Radiation Center