Photoemission from Magnetic Metals and Alloys

Angle-resolved uv photoelectron spectroscopy has proved to be the most useful probe of the electronic structure in metallic solids. For the investigation of magnetic systems spin-resolved measurments are often preferred. However, considerable detailed information about the electronic structure in certain magnetic metals and alloys can be obtained using conventional and inverse spin-integrated photoemission techniques. In this paper a selection of results from such studies on spin-glass Ag -Mn alloys and on the rate-earth metal Gd are described and compared, where appropriate, with theory.