HIGH-RESOLUTION PHOTOEMISSION FROM A TUNABLE QUANTUM-WELL - CU(111) NA/

High-resolution photoemission (Delta E=5 meV) at a low photon energy ( 3.82 eV) is used to probe discrete quantum-well-type subband states ne ar, below, and above E-F for Cu(111) covered with 2 ML or less of Na. A subband characteristic of the monolayer range shifts gradually to lo wer energy as the coverage is increased, extending below the Fermi lev el for coverages above 0.85 ML. Combined with previous observations of shifts for filled and empty states the present results show that the Na monolayer has continuously tunable quantum-well state energies. Bey ond the monolayer range quantum-well states characteristic of both one and two atomic layers an observed, indicating growth of the second la yer via monolayer high islands. A small downshift, by 25 meV, with inc reasing coverage in the second layer is ascribed to an increase of the island size. Lorentzian photoemission line shapes are observed for we ll-ordered samples. The linewidth varies linearly with temperature in the probed range (130-295 K) and this is ascribed to the phonon contri bution to the width. Structural disorder leads to an asymmetric line, which is Lorentzian on the steeper, low-kinetic-energy side.