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Identification of induced reaction during XPS depth profile measurements of CeO2Si films grown by ion beam epitaxy

✍ Scribed by Z Wu; D Huang; X Yang; J Wang; F Qin; J Zhang; Z Yang


Publisher
Elsevier Science
Year
1998
Tongue
English
Weight
477 KB
Volume
49
Category
Article
ISSN
0042-207X

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✦ Synopsis


An anomalous behavior was observed in X-ray photoelectron Spectroscopy (XPS) depth profile measurements conducted on CeO/Si epilayers grown by ion beam epitaxy (IBE) : the signals of Ce3+ and Ce4+ co-exist, and the ratio between them increases during the etching time and then tends to maintain a constant level before increasing again. The results of X-ray Diffraction (XRD), Auger Electron Spectroscopy (AES), and Rutherford Back-Scattering

(RBS) measurements proved that the reduction chemical reaction of CeO, is induced by ion-etching.