eng Oriental Scientific Publishing Company Material Science Research India 0973-3469 2013-06-10 10 1 101 105 316 article XPS Characterization of Native Oxide Layers on Fe78B13Si9 Before and After High Energy Heavy Ion Irradiation Rohit Jain 1 Shubhra Mathur 1 Department of Physics, Jagannath Gupta Institute of Engineering and Technology, Jaipur - 303 905, India.

The native oxide layers formed on amorphous alloy Fe78B13Si9 before and after high energy heavy ion (Ni11+ 150 MeV) irradiation, were characterized by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS). The unirradiated specimen of the alloy consists of Fe3+ and Fe0 whereas the irradiated specimen contains only Fe3+ species. The B 1s and Si 2p spectra shows the presence of B3+ and Si4+ species most likely in the form of B2O3 and SiO2 on the surfaces of both unirradiated and irradiated specimens of the alloy Fe78B13Si9. The native oxide layer on the irradiated specimen contained higher amounts of oxides of B in comparison to unirradiated specimen.

 https://www.materialsciencejournal.org/vol10no1/xps-characterization-of-native-oxide-layers-on-fe78b13si9-before-and-after-high-energy-heavy-ion-irradiation/ Amorphous Irradiation XPS