As evidenced by more than 12,000 papers published annually, X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) is an indispensable technique in modern materials science for the analysis of surface chemistry. However, a literature survey reveals that vast majority cases incorrect referencing binding energy scale used, neglecting warnings have been formulated from early days technique. Consequences data reli...

The surface and interfacial analysis of silicon oxide film on silicon substrate is particularly crucial in the nano-electronic devices. For this purpose, series of experiments have been demonstrated to grow oxide film on Si (111) substrate. Then these films have been used to study the structure of the film by using X-ray photo emission spectroscopy (XPS) technique. The obtained results indicate...

CdS quantum dots were grown on mesoporous TiO2 films by successive ionic layer adsorption and reaction processes in order to obtain CdS particles of various sizes. AFM analysis shows that the growth of the CdS particles is a two-step process. The first step is the formation of new crystallites at each deposition cycle. In the next step the pre-deposited crystallites grow to form larger aggregat...

Information derived or interpreted from analyses of X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy (XPS) data is frequently used to make valuable decisions in business, product development, process improvement and materials characterization. For this reason, it is important to understand the characteristics of the reference data stored in the data-banks that are currently used to obtain this information. Thi...

The step towards the fabrication of nanodevices with improved performance is of high demand; therefore in this study oxygen plasma treated ZnO nanorods based piezoelectric nanogenerator is developed on the single layer graphene coated PET flexible polymer substrate. ZnO nanorods on the single layer graphene are grown by hydrothermal growth method and the structural study is carried out by using...