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The XPS Searchlight Effect: A New Analytical Tool for Layered Structures, Epitaxy, and Interfaces

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 February 2011

W. F. Egelhoff Jr
W. F. Egelhoff Jr*
Affiliation:
Surface Science Division, National Bureau of Standards, Gaithersburg, MD 20899
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Abstract

Enhanced core-level peak intensities at angles corresponding to the internuclear axes among the near surface atoms is a characteristic feature of angle resolved XPS. This phenomenon, which is due to constructive interference in forward scattering of photoelectrons, acts, in effect, as a search-light allowing relatively easy mapping out of the structural arrangement atoms in the near-surface region. Examples which illustrate the usefulness of the XPS searchlight effect are presented.

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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 37: Symposium D – Layered Structures, Epitaxy, and Interfaces , 1984 , 443
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 1985

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