Absence of holelike Fermi surface in superconducting K0.8Fe1.7Se2 revealed by ARPES

We have performed an angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy study of the new iron-based superconductor K0.8Fe1.7Se2 (Tc ~ 30 K). Clear band dispersion is observed with the overall bandwidth renormalized by a factor of 2.5 compared to our local density approximation calculations, indicating relatively strong correlation effects. Only an electronlike band crosses the Fermi energy, forming a nearly circular Fermi surface (FS) at M ({\pi}, 0). The holelike band at {\Gamma} sinks ~ 90 meV below the Fermi energy, with an indirect band gap of 30 meV to the bottom of the electronlike band. The observed FS topology in this superconductor favors ({\pi}, {\pi}) inter-FS scattering between the electronlike FSs at the M points, in sharp contrast with other iron-based superconductors which favor ({\pi}, 0) inter-FS scattering between holelike and electronlike FSs.