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Determination of photoelectron attenuation lengths in calcium phosphate ceramic films using XPS and RBS
Author(s) -
Feddes B.,
Vredenberg A. M.,
Wolke J. G. C.,
Jansen J. A.
Publication year - 2003
Publication title -
surface and interface analysis
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.52
H-Index - 90
eISSN - 1096-9918
pISSN - 0142-2421
DOI - 10.1002/sia.1531
Subject(s) - x ray photoelectron spectroscopy , rutherford backscattering spectrometry , analytical chemistry (journal) , photoelectric effect , materials science , attenuation , substrate (aquarium) , coating , oxygen , chemistry , thin film , nanotechnology , chemical engineering , optics , physics , oceanography , optoelectronics , chromatography , geology , engineering , organic chemistry
Calcium phosphate (CaP) coatings are used to improve the biological performance of an implant. A technique that is often used to measure the composition of this material is XPS. When extremely thin coatings are measured, for example to study the interface between CaP and a substrate, the quantification of the XPS results is complicated by the varying attenuation lengths (ALs) of the photoelectrons at different energies. To correct for this, AL data are needed. In this work we measured these ALs by comparing XPS yields with the coating coverage (as measured by Rutherford backscattering spectrometry). We were able to determine the AL for several calcium and phosphorus peaks. Determination of the oxygen ALs was not possible owing to diffusion of oxygen into the polymeric substrates. For the peaks that are most often used for quantification of XPS yields (the Ca 2p and the P 2p peak), we found ALs of 21.8 × 10 15 atoms cm −2 and 26.8 × 10 15 atoms cm −2 , respectively. Concentration profiles near the interface, growth mode and interfacial roughness appeared to have no measurable effect on the measured ALs. For the ALs, an energy dependence with an exponent of 0.55 was found. The measured ALs are best predicted by the empirical CS1 equation of Cumpson and Seah. Copyright © 2003 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.