XPS in industry—Problems with binding energies in journals and binding energy databases

Autor: B. Vincent Crist
Rok vydání: 2019
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Zdroj: Journal of Electron Spectroscopy and Related Phenomena. 231:75-87
ISSN: 0368-2048
DOI: 10.1016/j.elspec.2018.02.005
Popis: Experimentally measured BEs are commercially available in various forms, e.g. scientific journals, handbooks, internet based data-banks, computer-based data-banks of BEs or complete sets of actual spectra. This review addresses fundamental problems that exist in experimentally measured binding energies (BEs) stored in various numerical X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy (XPS) data-banks, including, for example: (1) PHI Handbook of XPS (1979), (2) NIST SRD-20 XPS Database, v1.0–4.1 (1989–2017), (3) Wiley Practical Surface Analysis 1st and 2nd ed. (1990), (4) SASJ ComPro v12 and Data-bank (1990–2017), (5) JEOL Handbook of XPS (1991), (6) CRC Practical Handbook of Spectroscopy (1991), (7) PHI Handbook of XPS, 2nd Ed. (1992), (8) AVS Surface Science Spectra (1993–2017), (9) LaSurface Web Site Database – XPS (2001–2017), and (10) Biesinger XPSfitting website (2012–2017). The 3 major problems in all existing data-banks are due to: (a) the widespread use of different calibration energies, (b) the widespread use of different energy scales, and (c) the widespread use of a “user-defined” BE for the C 1s peak attributed to hydrocarbon moieties. At the end of this review there is a list of recommendations for the design and content of future XPS data-banks.
Databáze: OpenAIRE