NEWDTP 2.2 - A VERSATILE SYSTEM FOR ROUTINE XPS DATA ACQUISITION AND ANALYSIS

A system for X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy data acquisition and processing is described, offering a reasonable compromise between flexibility, efficiency and cost. The acquisition program was carefully designed to be user-friendly and to safely guide the operator in obtaining single or repeated multiple-region spectra. The processing program was also designed for fast and reliable operations and, besides all the usual routines, allows for spectral syntheses and differences. In particular, iterative synthesis procedures can be performed in a completely interactive environment: by this approach the chemical sense of the operator drives the iteration strategy throughout the analysis of the spectra. A few selected spectra are processed to describe software operations.