The bulk-sensitive Ce 4f spectral weights of various Ce compounds including CeFe2, CeNi2, and CeSi2 were obtained with the resonant photoemission technique at the Ce 3d-edge. We found the lineshapes change significantly with the small change of the incident photon energy. Detailed analysis showed that this phenomenon results primarily from the Auger transition between different multiplet states of the Ce 3d5/24f2 (bar denotes a hole) electronic configuration in the intermediate state of the resonant process. This tells us that extra care should be taken for the choice of the resonant photon energy when extracting Ce 4f spectral weights from the Ce 3d-edge resonant photoemission spectra. The absorption energy corresponding to the lowest multiplet structure of the Ce 3d5/24f2 configuration seems to be the logical choice.
@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0301211,
title = {Auger Effect in the High-Resolution Ce 3d-edge Resonant Photoemission},
author = {E. -J. Cho and R. -J. Jung and B. -H. Choi and S. -J. Oh and T. Iwasaki and A. Sekiyama and S. Imada and S. Suga and T. Muro and J. -G. Park and Y. S. Kwon},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0301211},
year = {2009}
}