Abstract
The charging effect often complicates photoemission spectroscopy and x-ray absorption spectroscopy of an insulating material. Here, monolayer graphene was used as a conductive layer to prevent the charging effect of insulating substrates such as glass and LiNbO3. Charging-free spectra were obtained with various photon energies ranging from vacuum ultraviolet light to hard x-rays. This method could also be applied to photoemission spectroscopy of epoxy adhesives and to photoemission electron microscopy of an insulating film. Photoelectron transmissivities for the transferred graphene film were evaluated over a wide kinetic energy range from 29 to 7910 eV. A minimum transmissivity of ∼0.1 was found at a kinetic energy of ∼60 eV, which rose to 0.86 at 7910 eV. In terms of the kinetic energy dependence of the transmissivity, this method is especially suitable for conventional and hard x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy.
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