{"id":4144,"date":"2024-12-30T14:59:16","date_gmt":"2024-12-30T22:59:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rbdinstruments.com\/blog\/?p=4144"},"modified":"2024-12-30T16:25:41","modified_gmt":"2024-12-31T00:25:41","slug":"xps-data-algorithms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rbdinstruments.com\/blog\/xps-data-algorithms\/","title":{"rendered":"XPS data algorithms"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Here is a link to a section of a PDF file that explains the math behind the most common data algorithms used in XPS.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-file\"><object class=\"wp-block-file__embed\" data=\"https:\/\/www.rbdinstruments.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/282793_XPS_Data_Massage_Algorithms-4.pdf\" type=\"application\/pdf\" style=\"width:100%;height:600px\" aria-label=\"Embed of 282793_XPS_Data_Massage_Algorithms-4.\"><\/object><a id=\"wp-block-file--media-f5da00a8-41e7-484d-aa1c-f41dca9e565a\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rbdinstruments.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/282793_XPS_Data_Massage_Algorithms-4.pdf\">282793_XPS_Data_Massage_Algorithms-4<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rbdinstruments.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/282793_XPS_Data_Massage_Algorithms-4.pdf\" class=\"wp-block-file__button wp-element-button\" download aria-describedby=\"wp-block-file--media-f5da00a8-41e7-484d-aa1c-f41dca9e565a\">Download<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is a link to a section of a PDF file that explains the math behind the most common data algorithms used in XPS.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[165],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2DEXo-14Q","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":291,"url":"https:\/\/www.rbdinstruments.com\/blog\/casaxps-data-processing-software-for-xps\/","url_meta":{"origin":4144,"position":0},"title":"CasaXPS \u2013 Data processing software for XPS","author":"Randy","date":"January 9, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy or XPS (also known as ESCA, an abbreviation for Electron Spectroscopy for Chemical Analysis), has become one of the most prevalent surface analysis techniques for the characterization of solid surfaces in vacuum. 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