The objective of this volume is to provide a comprehensive review of the state and progress of solid-state photoemission. including closely-related methods, both from a theoretical and from an experimental point of view. This material should be of particular interest to a wide range of theoretical and experimental physicists, materials scientists, and chemists, from graduate students to experts, dealing especially with surfaces and other nanostructures.
Many excellent treatments of major aspects of this field have appeared in the last decade: we mention in particular Inglesfield and Plummer's 1992 review article1, which focused on the fundamental principles of valence-level angle-resolved photoemission, and the 1995 book by Hiifner2. which adopted a more experimental perspective.
This field has continued to grow at a fast pace on many fronts, greatly expanding its capabilities and achievements. We thus felt that it was necessary and timely to bring together diverse developments in a single monograph, in an attempt to provide a degree of up-to-date completeness of the current state of the art.