XPS Study of Multilayer Multicomponent Films
Journal article, 2018

In the paper, we propose an XPS-based quantitative method for depth profile analysis of chemical and phase composition of multi-component and multi-layer samples. The method includes: (1) new method for background subtraction accounting for depth non-uniformity of electron energy losses; (2) new method for photoelectron line decomposition into elementary peaks, which accounts for physical nature of the decomposition parameters; (3) joint solving of both background subtraction and photoelectron line decomposition problems; (4) criterion for assessing of line decomposition accuracy; (5) simple formula for layer thickness extraction for multi-element and multi-layer sample. We apply the developed method for analysis of multilayer niobium oxide and sub-oxide films before and in course of ion milling.

XPS background subtracting

XPS

Chemical and phase analysis

XPS line decomposition

Depth profiling

Niobium oxide

Author

Alexander Lubenchenko

National Research University Moscow Power Engineering Institute

Alexander Batrakov

National Research University Moscow Power Engineering Institute

Alexey Pavolotskiy

Chalmers, Space, Earth and Environment, Advanced Receiver Development

Olga Lubenchenko

National Research University Moscow Power Engineering Institute

Dmitriy Ivanov

National Research University Moscow Power Engineering Institute

Applied Surface Science

0169-4332 (ISSN)

Vol. 427 A 711-721

Subject Categories

Other Materials Engineering

Nano Technology

Condensed Matter Physics

DOI

10.1016/j.apsusc.2017.07.256

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Created

10/8/2017