confinement in metastable epitaxial Ag films grown on the Si (111) 7× 7 and Si (001) 2× 1
surfaces is investigated by angle-resolved photoemission using synchrotron radiation. In
contrast to the free-electron-like behavior expected, these QWS's show intriguing
dispersions such as (i) a significant enhancement of the in-plane effective mass with
decreasing binding energy and (ii) a splitting of a QWS into two electronic states with …