Abstract
Metals can form several kinds of oxides. Iron forms wustite (FeO), magnetite (FeO + Fe 2O 3 or Fe 3O 4) and haematite (Fe 2O 3). Iron oxides, especially magnetite, are used for insulation between the lamellas of an electromotor made of electromagnetic sheet. In this work, iron oxide layers were characterized on industrial samples of electromagnetic sheet by AES depth profile analysis, and iron oxides with known chemical composition were used as reference samples, i.e. a magnetite mineral and a standard haematite reference sample. The magnetite mineral was chosen because it can be found in nature in a very pure form. The selection of reference samples was also verified on samples with an oxide layer of known composition, which were prepared by sputter deposition. The composition of the sputtered oxide layers was analysed by the weight-gain method and Rutherford backscattering without the use of standard reference materials (SRM), and the results were then compared with those obtained by AES depth profile analysis.
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