Availability of layered certified reference materials for industrial application of glow discharge spectrometric depth profiling
✍ Scribed by Winchester, R. Michael; Beck, Uwe
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1999
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 108 KB
- Volume
- 27
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0142-2421
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✦ Synopsis
Owing primarily to speed, low cost and ease of use relative to competing surface analysis techniques, glow discharge spectrometry (GDS) has become an economically important depth profiling method for certain niche industries in Europe and Japan. For the industrial application of this method, layered certified reference materials (CRMs) are needed to ensure accuracy, as well as comparability between individual users. A survey of existing CRMs has been conducted to evaluate the availability of layered CRMs with appropriate characteristics. No materials with the desirable characteristics necessary for efficient implementation were found. These results indicate a need for the production of new layered CRMs.