X-RAY PHOTOELECTRON-SPECTRA OF INEQUIVALENT ATOMS IN INORGANIC-COMPOUNDS

X-Ray photoelectron spectra of compounds containing inequivalent atoms were studied. The spectra of some compounds did not have separate peaks corresponding to inequivalent atoms, but their spectra were summations of the spectra of the compounds containing single kinds of atoms. In determining the chemical states of the atoms with XPS, the spectra of the compounds must be compared with the spectra of compounds having the same oxidation and coordination numbers, and the photoelectron spectral intensities are summations of the intensities of the primary and satellite peaks. © 1979.