Summaries of XPS BEs 

 

 

NOTE:   NIST HAS NEVER MEASURED any XPS BEs

 

from any pure metal, pure element, pure oxides, pure polymer
or any chemical compound listed in the NIST Collection

 

All 25,000+ XPS BEs were extracted from hundreds of OLD literature
publications by Dr. Charles D. Wagner at U Cal Berkeley)

 

We Recommend:  Use NIST XPS BEs ONLY as a Guide

 

 

XPS BEs stored in NIST Collection
were extracted and compiled by Mark Biesinger – UWO

 

  • This collection of BE tables was compiled by M. Biesinger (UWO) by summarizing the BEs listed in the NIST XPS Database of BEs.
  • Please review and evaluate the Standard Deviation (Std. Dev.) value when you are using any of these BEs to make any chemical state assignment.
  • Large “Std. Dev.” values having only a few # of Reference citings are risky to use and may lead to wrong assignments, decisions and errors.  Be careful please.  Many researchers depend on your chemical state assignments to be accurate!
  • Because the original researcher used C (1s) BEs that could be 284.6 eV, 284.8 eV, or 285.0 eV, the BEs for insulators might vary by as much as 0.4 eV.
  • Older publications used different calibration energies for the Cu 2p3/2 BE:  932.2 eV, 932.47 eV, or 932.8 eV.  This means that BEs above 500 eV can vary by as much as 0.6 eV for both insulators and conductors.
  • The accuracy, precision, and reproducibility of these BEs depends on the efforts used by the original researchers.  To learn more, please visit the NIST link in the main menu.

 

Aluminum, (Al)  

Al (2p3/2)  BEs

 

 

 

 

 

Antimony, (Sb)

Sb (3d5/2) BEs

 

Argon, (Ar)

 

Arsenic, (As)

As (3d5/2) BEs

 

 

 

Barium, (Ba)

Ba (3d5/2) BEs

 

 

 

Beryllium, (Be)

Be (1s) BEs

 

 

 

Bismuth, (Bi)

Bi (4f7/2) BEs

 

 

Boron, (B)

B (1s) BEs

 

 

 

 

Bromine, (Br)

Br (3d5/2) BEs

 

 

Cadmium, (Cd)

Cd (3d5/2) BEs

 

 

Calcium, (Ca)

Ca (2p3/2) BEs

 

 

Carbon, (C), in Polymers

C (1s) BEs

 

Cerium, (Ce)

Cesium, (Cs)

 

Chlorine, (Cl)

Cl (2p3/2) BEs

Chromium, (Cr)

Cobalt, (Co)

 

Copper, (Cu)

Cu (2p3/2) BEs

Copper, (Cu)

Cu (2p3/2) BEs

 

 

 

 

Dysprosium, (Dy)

Erbium, (Er)

Europium, (Eu)

Fluorine, (F)

F (1s) BEs

 

Gadolinium, (Gd)

 

Gallium, (Ga)

Ga (3p3/2) BEs

 

Ga (3d5/2) BEs

 

Ga (2p3/2) BEs

 

 

Germanium, (Ge)

Ge (3p3/2) BEs

 

Ge (3d5/2) BEs

 

 

 

Hafnium, (Hf)

Hf (4f7/2) BEs

Holmium, (Ho)

 

Indium, (In)

In (3d5/2) BEs

 

 

 

Iodine, (I)

I (3d5/2) BEs

 

 

 

Iridium, (Ir)

Ir (4f7/2) BEs

 

 

Lanthanum, (La)

 

Lead, (Pb)

Pb (4f7/2) BEs

 

 

Lithium, (Li)

Li (1s) BEs

 

Lutetium, (Lu)

 

Magnesium, (Mg)

Mg (1s) BEs

 

Manganese, (Mn)

Mercury, (Hg)

Hg (4f7/2) BEs

 

 

 

Molybdenum, (Mo)

Mo (3d5/2) BEs

 

 

 

Neodymium, (Nd)

Neon, (Ne)

 

Nitrogen, (N)

N (1s) BEs

 

 

Neodymium

 

Niobium, (Nb)

Nb (3d5/2) BEs

 

Nickel, (Ni)

Oxygen, (O), in Polymers

O (1s) BEs 

 

 

Oxygen, (O)

O (1s) BEs

 

 

 

Osmium, (Os)

 

Palladium, (Pd)

Pd (3d5/2) BEs

 

 

Phosphorus, (P)

P (2p3/2) BEs

 

 

Platinum, (Pt)

Pt (4f7/2) BEs

 

 

Praseodymium

Rhenium, (Re)

 

 

Rhodium, (Rh)

Rh (3d5/2) BEs

 

Ruthenium, (Ru)

Ru (3d5/2) BEs

 

Samarium, (Sm)

 

Scandium, (Sc)

Sc (2p3/2) BEs

 

 

Selenium, (Se)

Se (3d5/2) BEs

 

 

Silicon, (Si)

Si (2p3/2) BEs

 

 

Silver, (Ag)

Ag (3d5/2) BEs

 

 

Sodium, (Na)

Na (1s) BEs

 

 

Strontium, (Sr)

Sr (3d5/2) BEs

 

 

Sulfur, (S), in Organics

S (2p3/2) BEs

 

Sulfur, (S), in Inorganics

S (2p3/2) BEs

 

 

 

Tantalum, (Ta)

Tellurium, (Te)

Te (3d5/2) BEs

 

Technitium, (Tc)

Terbium, (Tb)

Thallium, (Tl)

Thorium, (Th)

Thulmium, (Tm)

 

Tin, (Sn)

Sn (3d5/2) BEs

 

 

 

 

Titanium, (Ti)

Ti (2p3/2) BEs

 

 

 

Tungsten, (W)

W (4f7/2) BEs

 

Uranium, (U)

Vanadium, (V)

Xenon, (Xe)

Ytterbium, (Yb)

 

Yttrium, (Y)

Y (3d5/2) BEs

 

 

Zinc, (Zn)

Zn (2p3/2) BEs

 

 

Zirconium, (Zr)

Zr (3d5/2) BEs