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Analysis Of Solid Surfaces By Soft X-Ray Appearance Potential Spectroscopy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 March 2019

Robert L. Park  and
J. E. Houston
Robert L. Park
Affiliation:
Sandia Laboratories Albuquerque, New Mexico 87115
J. E. Houston
Affiliation:
Sandia Laboratories Albuquerque, New Mexico 87115
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Abstract

The total soft x-ray emission of an electron-bombarded surface exhibits abrupt changes at the threshold potentials for the excitation of core levels of surface atoms. These features represent the excitation probabilities of the core states superimposed on a smoothly increasing background and can be sensitively detected by differentiating the x-ray emission with respect to sample potential. The application of this technique to the study of surface composition, chemical shifts, and band structure is discussed.

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Research Article
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Advances in X-Ray Analysis , Volume 15: Twentieth Annual Conference on Applications of X-ray Analysis, August 11-13, 1971 , 1971 , pp. 462 - 469
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Copyright © International Centre for Diffraction Data 1971

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