Depth profiling of nanostructures is of high importance both technologically and
fundamentally. Therefore, many different methods have been developed for determination of …

Stainless steels are widely used as metal components owing to self-protection in aggressive
environments, provided by an extremely thin surface oxide film enriched in chromium oxide …

Passivation mechanisms were investigated on (100)-oriented Fe-18Cr-13Ni surfaces with
direct transfer between surface preparation and analysis by X-ray photoelectron …

In situ X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy real-time measurements and angular-dependent
high resolution core level analysis were used for the first time to investigate the Cr …

In this paper, a review of the analysis of Fe 2p 3/2 peak and other transition metals in the
austenitic stainless steel literature is presented. It reveals the significant shortcomings of the …

The thin oxide layers forming on the metal surfaces of metals determine their interactions
with the environment and have a strong influence on the materials properties such as …

Scanning tunneling microscopy was applied to investigate the topographical and structural
alterations at small spatial and temporal scales of a model 304 austenitic stainless steel …

X‐ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) is a technique that is widely used to study thin
oxide films because of its extremely high surface sensitivity. Utilizing the QUASES …

The durability of passivable metals and alloys is often limited by the stability of the surface
oxide film, the passive film, providing self-protection against corrosion in aggressive …

The energy and activation barrier distributions of Cr atoms in austenitic alloys are
investigated over a multiplicity of modeling samples across a wide range of chemical (eg …