Abstract
AbstractAlkali‐aluminium silicate glasses are interesting due to their potential industrial applications. The most commonly applied methods for surface characterisation employ electron beam techniques operating with the electron beam affecting the atoms of solids and modifying glass surfaces.In the present work, the effect of the electron beam on the surface of sodium–potassium–aluminium silicate glass is investigated. The atomic composition, structural changes and chemical state of atoms are studied by qualitative and quantitative photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) and the line shape analysis using the pattern recognition (PR) method called the fuzzy k‐nearest neighbour (fkNN) rule. These methods proved to be applicable for complex glasses. Copyright © 2006 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
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