Description:
<jats:p>Electronic and magnetic interactions of carbon monoxide with different ferromagnetic substrates (amorphous materials, crystals, and thin films) are investigated by means of angle and spin resolving photoelectron spectroscopy. On none of these surfaces, an exchange splitting of the CO orbitals is present indicating only a weak magnetic interaction of the substrate d bands with the occupied molecular orbitals. Via the spin analysis, a differentiation between molecular adsorption and dissociation was possible.</jats:p>