[Wien] Calculating XPS spectra in Wien2k

2008-09-18 Thread Pierre-Emmanuel Lippens
At 11:19 18/09/2008, you wrote: Realy not a good idea, if you have C on the surface, what C is it ? CO, hydrocarbon, graphite ? All have a different binding energy of the C 1s ! I suggest, if youre sample is not to be supposed to contain C, you should clean it. This is not my own choice (I

[Wien] Calculating XPS spectra in Wien2k

2008-09-17 Thread Pierre-Emmanuel Lippens
At 14:20 17/09/2008, you wrote: It should be EF. I think experimentally binding energies in XPS are given with respect to EF=0. Yes, but the experimental energy scale is often calibrated by considering the C 1s peak (fixed at about 285 eV). This peak is used because of the carbon contamination