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What does XPS do?
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The XPS (Omicron ESCA Probe), which is equipped with an electron flood gun and a scanning ion gun, provides:
  1. Identification of the elements and chemical status with the electronic database.
  2. Quantification of chemical composition.
    Destructive depth profiling using an ion gun.
  3. Non-destructive depth profiling by the angle-resolved analysis.
  4. Neutralization of surface charging with the electron flood gun.
  5. Automatic peak fitting and target factor analysis, depth profile calculation, as well as curve smoothing, background removing with the loaded Multipak software.
XPS is one of the most extensively used analytical techniques due to its high sensitivity to the chemical structure near the outmost of the surface (0.5-8nm), the relative ease of operation, the wealth of useful information, and ease of chemical interpretation. XPS has found a variety of applications in metals, ceramics, semiconductors, polymers, and biomaterials.
  
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