A Round Robin Test on XPS Transmission Function

Abstract

In order to perform a quantitative analysis by electron spectroscopy, precise information on the transmission function of the spectrometer is crucial for comparison of spectra obtained with different analytical conditions or by different models of spectrometers. A preliminary round robin test for comparison of transmission functions of different models of XPS spectrometers was conducted by some members of SASJ, and it was shown that standardization of the transmission correction procedure is necessary to perform quantitative analysis with relatively small uncertainty.