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a r X i v : c o n d - m a t / 0 6 0 3 6 4 2 v 1 [ c o n d - m a t .s t r - e l ] 2 4 M a r 2 0 0 6 Angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy of perovskite-type transition-metal oxides and their analyses using tight-binding band structure H. Wadati,1, ? T. Yoshida,1 A. Chikamatsu,2 H. Kumigashira,2 M. Oshima,2 H. Eisaki,3 Z.-X. Shen,4 T. Mizokawa,1 and A. Fujimori1 1Department of Physics and Department of Complexity Science and Engineering, University of Tokyo, Kashiwa, Chiba 277-8561, Japan 2Department of Applied Chemistry, University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8656, Japan 3National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Tsukuba 305-8568, Japan 4Department of Applied Physics and Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA (Dated: February 6, 2008) Abstract Nowadays it has become feasible to perform angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES) measurements of transition-metal oxides with three-dimensional perovskite structures owing to the availability of high-quality single crystals of bulk and epitaxial thin films. In this article, we review recent experimental results and interpretation of ARPES data using empirical tight- binding band-structure calculations. Results are presented for SrVO3 (SVO) bulk single crystals, and La1?xSrxFeO3 (LSFO) and La1?xSrxMnO3 (LSMO) thin films. In the case of SVO, from comparison of the experimental results with calculated surface electronic structure, we concluded that the obtained band dispersions reflect the bulk electronic structure. The experimental band structures of LSFO and LSMO were analyzed assuming the G-type antiferromagnetic state and the ferromagnetic state, respectively. We also demonstrated that the intrinsic uncertainty of the electron momentum perpendicular to the crystal surface is important for the interpretation of the ARPES results of three-dimensional materials. 1 INTRODUCTION Perovskite-type 3d transition-metal (TM) oxides