Sur la fiabilité du pic 1s du carbone de contamination comme étalon interne d'énergie dans les spectres de photoélectrons

The hydrocarbon contamination of an AEI ES 100 spectrometer has been studied in order to determine the reliability of the C 1s line as a standard in X-ray photoelectron spectra of non conducting solids. With alumina samples, it is shown that the contamination layer of this non ultra-high vacuum spectrometer is a suitable standard of energy for the correction of the charging effect and that it gives relative measurements with an accuracy of ± 0.2 eV when the sample temperature is varied from ?180°C to 200dgC or the sample holder is biased between ?10 and 10 V. About 75 spectra were recorded with powdered alumina compressed into a copper grid and the standard deviations of the corrected kinetic energies of the Al 2p and O 1s photoelectrons are respectively 0.09 and 0.06 eV.No effects of the X-ray tube current and the irradiation time are detected. The charging effect increases with the sample temperature (+0.6 eV from ?180 to 200°C).