Quantitative core level photoemission spectroscopy : a primer /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Coĺon Santana, Juan A. (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: San Rafael [California] (40 Oak Drive, San Rafael, CA, 94903, USA) : Morgan & Claypool Publishers, [2015]
Series:IOP concise physics.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgement
  • Author biography
  • Brief theory of photoemission spectroscopy
  • Quantum mechanics revisited
  • Photoemission spectroscopy as a bound eigenvalue energy probe
  • The photoemission process
  • The three step model
  • The elements of photoemission spectroscopy
  • X-ray photoemission: macroscopic insight
  • Ultra-high vacuum conditions
  • X-ray photon sources
  • The electron kinetic energy analyzer
  • Photoemission as a surface probe technique
  • Description of x-ray photoemission spectra
  • Photoemission spectra
  • Photoelectron intensity
  • Inelastic scattered electrons
  • The core level line shape
  • Spin-orbit splitting
  • Auger lines
  • Satellites
  • Charging effects in x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy
  • Charging phenomena
  • Differential charging
  • Methods for charge compensation
  • Core level data analysis
  • Common types of background subtraction
  • Common types of line shapes in x-ray photoemission spectroscopy
  • Experiments using x-ray photoemission
  • Oxidation states
  • Nominal specimen composition
  • Sputtering depth profile
  • Surface segregation
  • Thin film thickness
  • Surface to core level shift
  • Effective Debye temperature
  • Measuring Schottky barrier heights.