Formation of Technical Committee 201 on Surface Chemical Analysis by the International Organization for Standardization

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AbstractThe International Organization of Standardization (ISO) recently created a new Technical Comittee (ISO/TC 201) on Surface Chemical Analysis in response to a proposal from Japan. As of February 1993, ten national standards bodies had indicated willingness to become participating members of ISO/TC 201 (Austria, China, Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia, Sweden, Turkey, the United Kingdom and the United States of America) and fifteen national standards bodies had indicated willingness to become observer members (Australia, Belgium, Egypt, Finland, France, India, Ireland, Korea, Norway, Philippines, Poland, Romania, Singapore, South Africa and Switzerland). The following subcommittees are planned: Terminology; General Procedures; Data Management and Treatment; Depth Profiling; Auger Electron Spectroscopy; Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry and X‐ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy. It is expected that working groups will be established for Glow Discharge Optical Spectroscopy and Total Reflection X‐ray Fluorescence Spectroscopy. ISO/TC 201 will develop international standards and will consider standards and documents prepared by other groups as potential international standards. Information is given in this article on the purpose, structure and planned work of ISO/TC 201.