maestro beamline

Welcome to MAESTRO, the Microscopic and Electronic STRucture Observatory.

We are a facility at the Advanced Light Source, dedicated to the determination of electronic structure of materials at the mesoscopic (100-10000 nm) length scale.  We use a combination of spatially-resolved angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES) and sophisticated sample preparation techniques, to investigate the electronic band structure of materials.

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Downloads of Interest:

Presentations:

     First Results of the MAESTRO beamline (ALS Users' meeting 2016)

     Surfing Momentum In Momentum Space of 2D materials and oxides (NYU Colloquium, Dec 2017)

     MAESTRO: A New Beamline at the ALS for micro and nano electronic structure of in situ grown materials (SRI `2018)

     Capturing in-operando electronic structure of microscopic 2D materials (APS 2021)

Tutorials:

   "The bandstructure of solids by Angle Resolved Photoemission" ( [pdf] [video] U. C. Berkeley 2007)

      "Studies of the Electronic Structure of Low Dimensional Novel Metals": 

Sonoma State Lecture Series 2008, undergraduate-friendly video

    "A Practical Guide to Modern ARPES" [pdf], Aarhus University 8-26-2018

    "A Practical Guide to Photoemission" [ XPS + ARPES, pdf], ALS Users Meeting 4-10-2018

References:

   Eli Rotenberg's  PhD Thesis: "The Relationship Between Structure and Core-Level Shifts in Thin Epitaxial Films of CaF2 and SrF2 on Si(111)" [pdf]

  First published nanoARPES data (AFAWK) Eli's Book Chapter: Many‐Body Interactions in Nanoscale Materials by Angle‐Resolved Photoemission Spectroscopy, doi: 10.1002/9783527632282