Specific Process Knowledge/Characterization/XPS/XPS technique: Difference between revisions
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XPS is a surface sensitive and non destructive technique used for analysis of the elemental composition of a sample. It relies on the photoelectric effect; X-ray photons irradiated onto a sample will cause electrons bound in the sample atoms to become free electrons inside the the sample. The kinetic energy of these photoelectrons depend on the energy of the X-ray photon and their original binding energy. Escaping into the vacuum and counted in the electron spectrometer as function of their kinetic energy, the photoelectrons make a spectrum if represented in terms of numbers as function of their binding energy. | XPS is a surface sensitive and non destructive technique used for analysis of the elemental composition of a sample. It relies on the photoelectric effect; X-ray photons irradiated onto a sample will cause electrons bound in the sample atoms to become free electrons inside the the sample. The kinetic energy of these photoelectrons depend on the energy of the X-ray photon and their original binding energy. Escaping into the vacuum and counted in the electron spectrometer as function of their kinetic energy, the photoelectrons make a spectrum if represented in terms of numbers as function of their binding energy. | ||
There are two reasons why the technique is extremely useful: | There are two reasons why the technique is extremely useful: | ||