A review of the properties of presently utilized display modes for broad‐energy‐range Auger electron spectra (from deflection‐type analyzers) suggests that an N (E) presentation, stripped of its most troublesome backgrounds, would be an excellent mode in many respects. The general features of the instrument response function and the modulation waveform required to achieve such a result in real time are developed and applied to the spectra of several typical specimens. In addition to the practical advantage that the maximum possible sensitivity and resolution are simultaneously available from the analyzer employed, this approach also encourages modest real‐time spectrum deconvolution to actually reduce the finite broadening associated with that analyzer.
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Pocker et al. (1976) studied this question.