Spectroscopic studies of electron surface states on liquid helium

Field-ion microscopy has been previously used [1–4] to determine the surface energy anisotropy of tungsten and iridium. Drechsler and Nicholas [5] have used field emission patterns of equilibrium shapes of emitters to determine the surface energy anisotropies for a number of fcc and bcc metals including α-iron. The purpose of the present paper is to report some observations by field-ion microscopy on the vacuum faceting of α-iron and the surface energy anisotropy at about half the absolute melting point. Qualitative results on the effect of hydrogen on the surface energy anisotropy are also presented.