[Wien] Calculating XPS spectra in Wien2k

[Laurence Marks]

Good point, we do use the C 1s peak for calibration.

On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 8:56 AM, Pierre-Emmanuel Lippens
<lippens at univ-montp2.fr> wrote:
> 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 usually observed in XPS experiments.
>
> PE Lippens
>
>
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