Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 February 2011
The topology of the Fermi surface in La2CuO4-σ is determined by two dimensional angular correlation measurements of annihilation radiations (2D-ACAR) at room temperature. The determined Fermi surface is two dimensional and has a slender electron pillar along ΓZ and two kinds of hole pillars along PX and along NN direction parallel to ΓZ, respectively, in the Bradley and Cracknell notation modified by Yu, Freeman and Xu. It is concluded that the Fermi surface is not a simple half filled one and this compound should be metallic at least at room temperature in the band picture.