摘要
A basic understanding of the sputter induced artifacts during low energy oxygen ion beam bombardment is of great importance for a correct evaluation of the results of sputter depth profiling in SIMS. In this paper the sputter depth profiling of Si, CoSi2 and TiSi2 under normal oxygen bombardment has been investigated. With the combined sputter/RBS set-up and in combination with ex-situ XPS measurements, the oxidation and near-surface compositional changes in the transient region have been explained.