You must first complete XPS Knowledge Apprentice (L2) – Gold Certificate – XRI before taking this course.

Course Description, Objectives and Overview

Lesson 1 – XPS COURSE #900 – Peak-fitting Lesson 2 – XPS COURSE #900 – Binding Energy Calibration Lesson 3 – XPS COURSE #900 – Bad Peak-fitting Lesson 4 – XPS COURSE #900 – Verify Instrument Status Lesson 5 – XPS COURSE #900 – Testing for Charge-up Lesson 6 – XPS COURSE #900 – Energy Resolution Lesson 7 – XPS COURSE #900 – Data Collection Settings Lesson 8 – XPS COURSE #900 – Real World Problems Lesson 9 – XPS COURSE #900 – Choices of FWHM Lesson 10 – XPS COURSE #900 – Information Wanted – Purpose of Analyes Lesson 11 – XPS COURSE #900 – Binding Energy Uncertainties & Errors Lesson 12 – XPS COURSE #900 – Processing Chemical State Spectra Lesson 13 – XPS COURSE #900 – Calibration BEs Lesson 14 – XPS COURSE #900 – On-Line Resources Lesson 15 – XPS COURSE #900 – XPS can NOT do X Lesson 16 – XPS COURSE #900 – Reliability & Reproducibility Lesson 17 – XPS COURSE #900 – Accuracy and Precision Lesson 18 – XPS COURSE #900 – Instrument Components Lesson 19 – XPS COURSE #900 – Electronic Structures Lesson 20 – XPS COURSE #900 – Charge Neutralization Lesson 21 – XPS COURSE #900 – Charge Compensation & Control Lesson 22 – XPS COURSE #900 – Sample Lesson 23 – XPS COURSE #900 – C (1s) and Charge Referencing Lesson 24 – XPS COURSE #900 – Chemical States Lesson 25 – XPS COURSE #900 – Electronegativity and Bond Polarization Lesson 26 – XPS COURSE #900 – Sample Degradation Lesson 27 – XPS COURSE #900 – Monochromatic Aluminum X-ray Source Lesson 28 – XPS COURSE #900 – Pass Energy Choices Lesson 29 – XPS COURSE #900 – Turnaround Times for XPS Work Lesson 30 – XPS COURSE #900 – Discuss Goals and Spectra Wanted Lesson 28 – XPS COURSE #900 – Verify Instrument is Safe to Operation Lesson 32 – XPS COURSE #900 – Glove Induced Contamination Lesson 33 – XPS COURSE #900 – Sample Handling, Packaging, Storage Lesson 34 – XPS COURSE #900 – Excessive Outgassing Sample in Loadlock Lesson 35 – XPS COURSE #900 – Check Vacuum Levels Lesson 36 – XPS COURSE #900 – Run Spectra to Check for Sample Degradation Lesson 37 – XPS COURSE #900 – Optimize Flood Gun Settings and Position Lesson 38 – XPS COURSE #900 – Choose Data Collection Settings – Protocol Lesson 39 – XPS COURSE #900 – Quality Level of Data Needed Lesson 40 – XPS COURSE #900 – Atom%s from Chemical State Spectra Lesson 41 – XPS COURSE #900 – Atom%s from Survey Spectra Lesson 42 – XPS COURSE #900 – Protocols Lesson 43 – XPS COURSE #900 – Chemical Shifts Lesson 44 – XPS COURSE #900 – Features of Survey Spectra Lesson 45 – XPS COURSE #900 – Peakshapes due to Bad Charge Control Lesson 46 – XPS COURSE #900 – SF, RSFs and CSs Lesson 47 – XPS COURSE #900 – Software Training Videos Lesson 48 – XPS COURSE #900 – Typical Prices for XPS Analyses Lesson 49 – XPS COURSE #900 – XPS Training Courses Lesson 50 – XPS COURSE #900 – On-Line Resources Lesson 51 – XPS COURSE #900 – Reference Books On-Line Lesson 52 – XPS COURSE #900 – XPS Spin-Orbit Terms (Notations) Lesson 53 – XPS COURSE #900 – Effects of Sample Form Lesson 54 – XPS COURSE #900 – Useful Guidance in JVST Journal Lesson 56 – XPS COURSE #900 – Troubleshooting XPS Instruments Lesson 57 – XPS COURSE #900 – Service Contracts Lesson 58 – XPS COURSE #900 – Instrument Software Training Courses – On-site Lesson 59 – XPS COURSE #900 – Artifacts in Spectra (spikes, charging, noise) Lesson 60 – XPS COURSE #900 – Uncertainties in NIST Database of BEs Lesson 61- XPS COURSE #900 – C (1s) Chemical Shifts Lesson 62 – XPS COURSE #900 – Using Adventitious C (1s) for Charge Referencing Lesson 63 – XPS COURSE #900 – Si (2p) Chemical Shifts Lesson 64 – XPS COURSE #900 – Chemical Shift Histograms Lesson 65 – XPS COURSE #900 – Auger Signals and Chemical States Lesson 66 – XPS COURSE #900 – Analyzing Insulators Lesson 67 – XPS COURSE #900 – Insulate All Samples Lesson 68 – XPS COURSE #900 – Using Deposited Gold for Charge Referencing Lesson 69 – XPS COURSE #900 – Terminology Lesson 70 – XPS COURSE #900 – Data Processing Lesson 71 – XPS COURSE #900 – CHI-Squared in Peak-fitting Lesson 72 – XPS COURSE #900 – Dwell Time, Step-size Lesson 73 – XPS COURSE #900 – 3-Step Photo-ionization Lesson 74 – XPS COURSE #900 – Examples of Spectra Lesson 75 – XPS COURSE #900 – Good Style Peak-fitting Lesson 76 – XPS COURSE #900 – High Energy Resolution Spectra Lesson 77 – XPS COURSE #900 – Inelastic Mean Free Path (IMFP) Lesson 78 – XPS COURSE #900 – Insulator Band-Gaps Lesson 79 – XPS COURSE #900 – Initial and Final States Lesson 80 – XPS COURSE #900 – Ion Beam Effects Lesson 81 – XPS COURSE #900 – Lifetime of "Clean" Surface Lesson 82 – XPS COURSE #900 – Vibrational Broadening of FWHM Lesson 83 – XPS COURSE #900 – Noise Lesson 84 – XPS COURSE #900 – Overlaying Spectra Lesson 85 – XPS COURSE #900 – Overlapping Chemical State Peaks Lesson 86 – XPS COURSE #900 – Overlapping Survey Spectra Peaks Lesson 87 – XPS COURSE #900 – Peak-Area Ratioing in Peak-fitting Lesson 88 – XPS COURSE #900 – Peak BE Difference in Peak-fitting Lesson 89 – XPS COURSE #900 – Peak Baseline (Background) Shapes Lesson 90 – XPS COURSE #900 – Peak Baseline (Background) Widths Lesson 91 – XPS COURSE #900 – Peak Endpoints Lesson 92 – XPS COURSE #900 – Polymers Lesson 93 – XPS COURSE #900 – Ceramics Lesson 94 – XPS COURSE #900 – Semiconductors Lesson 95 – XPS COURSE #900 – Catalysts Lesson 96 – XPS COURSE #900 – Single Crystals Lesson 97 – XPS COURSE #900 – Reporting Experimental Details Lesson 98 – XPS COURSE #900 – Real World Troubleshooting Lesson 99 – XPS COURSE #900 – Residual UHV Gases Lesson 100 – XPS COURSE #900 – Depths of Information – EDX, Raman, AES, ToF-SIMS Lesson 101 – XPS COURSE #900 – Iterated Shirley Baseline (BG) Lesson 102 – XPS COURSE #900 – Tougaard Baseline (BG) Lesson 103 – XPS COURSE #900 – True Background Subtraction Lesson 104 – XPS COURSE #900 – Smoothing Data Lesson 105 – XPS COURSE #900 – Estimating Thickness – Rule of Thumb: atom%=Ang Lesson 106 – XPS COURSE #900 – Calculating Oxide Thickness Lesson 107 – XPS COURSE #900 – Cumpson Thickogram Thickness Estimator Lesson 108 – XPS COURSE #900 – Ultra-High Vacuum (UHV) Lesson 109 – XPS COURSE #900 – Vacuum Pumps