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Techniques

What the modelled part of ESM is designed to do, as intent. First cut.

A technique is a portable Catalog Method; a Practice is how a facility adapts it. ESM's technique is angle-resolved photoemission, a photoemission method new to CORA's catalog, so the Method below renders unlinked and is carried pending until a technique enters scope (TECH-1).

Angle-resolved photoemission

ARPES illuminates the sample with monochromatic soft X-rays and measures the kinetic energy and emission angle of the photoelectrons, mapping the electronic band structure. The measurement is the electron distribution recorded by the hemispherical analyzer over a pass-energy and lens-mode window, at a sample orientation set by the cryostat manipulator.

Technique Catalog method Notes
Angle-resolved photoemission angle_resolved_photoemission electron energy / angle spectra on the Scienta SES analyzer, at low temperature on the UHV manipulator; Method not yet in catalog

It needs the grating monochromator (the incident energy), the UHV cryostat manipulator, and the electron analyzer. Polarization is set by the dual EPUs.

Not modelled yet

The XPEEM/LEEM photoemission-microscopy branch is deferred (a future ElectronMicroscope Family; see Model). The concrete acquisition recipes (Fermi-surface maps, energy-distribution curves, the analyzer sweep settings) are not written yet; they join as the deployment approaches the point where CORA drives ESM. See Open questions for the world-facts to confirm first.