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Since February 11th, PHI CHINA started the online lecture on XPS for four weeks. We received widespread attention and praises. In order to meet the eager learning needs of everyone, PHI CHINA will start another 3 days online lecture topic on “PHI CHINA Surface Analysis Technology Online Lecture – AES” from March 11 to March 13 at 3 pm every day.

March 11

Ms Lu, Defeng

AES fundamental review and technologies features with applications

Main Content:

1. AES fundamental review: including Auger electron generation, its technique featured capabilities; spatial resolution, detection limit, qualitative and quantitative analysis; basic composition of AES instrument and features of its energy analyzer.
2. The AES main functions: including basic spectrum acquisition, line scan, mapping images, sputter depth profiling; Cold fracture sample analysis, in-situ FIB + EDS + BSE + EBSD combing into one system as a complete solution for material characterization.
3. Main application of AES: including Nano materials, metal, semiconductor, catalytic material, energy battery, photovoltaics and anatomy of the film structure.

March 12

Mr Xin, Guoqiang

AES instrument hardware, function and features

Main Content:

1. System component
2. Vacuum system
3. The fundamental review of energy analyzer
4. Eectron gun and electron detector
5. The fundamental review of ion gun
6. AES instrument functions and features

March 13

Mr Yip, Sheungyuan Wensly

AES Sample preparation, data acquisition and interpretation

Main Content:

1. Sample preparation for different analysis requirements
2. Simple interpretation for AES result data, from raw spectrum to differentiate spectrum then further to qualitative and quantitative analysis
3. How to use the software and PHI Auger Handbook for data processing such as overlapped peaks problem
4. Auger spectrum background subtraction
5. Data interpretation for Line scan and Map acquisition
6. How to use LLS to perform data interpretation for AES depth profile;
7. AES analysis from conductor to semiconductor, and how to utilize the function charge neutralization in analysis

This lecture will continue to use the live broadcast and answer questions online.

PHI CHINA has been in the field of surface analysis for many years, focusing on the development and research.  PHI CHINA hopes this series of online lecture can help all of you to enrich your knowledge, upgrade your skills and also working with everyone to further promote the application and development of surface analysis technology.

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