A flood-gun arrangement is shown to be useful in alleviating the sample-charging problem in x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy. Modest currents (<10−8 A) of low-energy electrons result in the shifting of photoelectron energy peaks to the proper positions and the reduction of the peak widths.
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Huchital et al. (1972) studied this question.
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