• Newsletter no.30, Spring 2001
  • Index
  • Report on the Winter Meeting of The UK Surface Analysis Forum at Thermo VG Scientific, East Grinstead
  • Improving Productivity using Surface Analysis
    Including reports on the following presentations
    • Adhesion: A sticky problem for Industry
      Prof JF Watts
    • ISO 2000: The Boston Tea Party?
      Dr RK Wild
    • A Fist full of Examples: The good, the bad and the ugly
      Dr I Fletcher
    • Improving Productivity using Surface Analysis
      Dr A Swift
    • State of the Art - XPS
      Dr C Bloomfield
    • High resolution X-ray photoemission study of plasma oxidation of indium-tin-oxide thin film surfaces
      Dr R Egdell
    • Characterisation of Thin Films Using ARXPS
      Dr K Robinson
    • Modifying Vascular Prosthesis Materials to Enhance Endothelial cell adhesion
      Dr T Markkula
    • Use of XPS to investigate the mechanism of uptake of fluoride ions by dental filing materials
      Dr F Jones

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• Newsletter no.27, Autumn 1999
  • Index
  • Announcement of the forthcoming January 2000 Meeting of the Surface Analysis Forum, “Polymer Surface Analysis”
    Combined UK Surface Analysis Forum/SIMS Users Forum Meeting
  • Report on the Summer Meeting of The UK Surface Analysis Forum at The University of Wales
    Data Processing and Data Systems:
    What Real Progress has been made since the early 90’s?"
    
    Including reports on the following presentations
    • 30 years of Data Processing: The Rise and Fall of Deconvolution
      Dr A.F. Carley, Cardiff University
    • Data Interchange and Developments in Process Illustrated by Peak Synthesis Analysis: Do you need anything else?"
      Dr. Martin Seah, NPL, Teddington
    • Calculating XPS Peak Shifts: Is it Easy and is it Reliable?
      Dr. Chris Somerton, Sowerby Research Centre, BAe.
    • Y2K: Will my Spectrometer work in January?
      Dr K England, University of Manchester & Dr Keith Hallam, IAC-Bristol
    • Reports on manufacturers presentaions of new data analysis systems
      AGM of the UK ESCA Users Group

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• Newsletter no.26, Spring 1999
  • Index
  • Second Announcement of Forthcomming July Meeting Multi-Technique Problem Solving in an Industrial Environment
  • Report on on the Winter 98 meeting of the Surface Analysis Forum at Shell Thornton Laboratories
    
    Summaries of each presentation with the original overheads available for download
    • Multi-technique Analytical Studies of Automotive Anti-wear Films
    • TEM/XPS Characterisation of Industrial Catalysts
    • Diffusion Bonding of Al/Li Alloys
    • Coated Calcium Carbonate Revisited
    • Using the Millbrook Chemical Microscope as part of a Multi-Technique Analysis
    • The Year 2000 Problem
    • Save British Science - A Personal View
      
      Reports on the parallel workshop sessions :-
    • Dirty Samples:- How do we clean them to extract useful data?
    • Surface Analysis Outside UHV?
    • Sample Handling - Development of and ISO Standard.

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• Newsletter no.25, Autumn 1998
  • Index
  • Announcement of Forthcomming July Meeting
    "Data Processing and Data Systems: What Real Progress has been made since the early 90's?"
    Chemistry Dept., University of Wales (Cardiff) 7th July 1999
  • "The Characterisation of Thin Layers and Depth Profiles by Angle Resolved XPS" Report on the July meeting at The National Physical Laboratories, Including:-
    • A summary of each paper presented
    • Manufacturers presentations on practicable ARXPS solutions
    • ARXPS workshops, including hands-on experience, followed by
    • The AGM of the UK Surface Analysis Forum
    • Acknowledgements

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• Newsletter no.24, Spring 1998
  • Index
  • Announcement of Forthcomming July Meeting
    "The Characterisation of Thin Layers and Depth Profiles by Angle Resolved XPS" National Physical Laboratories Wednesday 15th July 1998
  • "Nano-Analysis"
    Report on the January meeting at the Interface Analysis Centre, Bristol University . Including a summary of each paper.
  • Acknowledgements

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• Newsletter no.23, Autumn 1997

• Index
• Announcement of Forthcomming January Meeting
  "Nano-Analysis", Wednesday 7th January 1998, Interface Analysis centre, Bristoll University
• "Fine-Tuning your Data"
  Report on the July meeting at Daresbury Laboratory. Including a summary of each paper
• ESCA Users Group AGM

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• Newsletter no.22, Spring 1997

• Index
• Editorial
• Update on website
• Announcement of Forthcomming June Meeting
  Fine Tuning Your Data, 9th July 1997, Daresbury Laboratory, Warrington, Cheshire
• Report on QSA-9
  Report by Prof. Jim Castle on the Recent Quantitative Surface Analysis conference at Surrey University.

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• Newsletter no.21, Autumn 1996

• Index
• "Joint" studies in Surface Analysis.
  Report on the July meeting at British Aerospace, Bristol. Including a summary of each paper.
• ESCA Users Group AGM
• Editorial.
  Changes to editorship and new look for newsletter.
• ESCA Users Group Prize Nominations.
  Information about the Prize and Request for Nominations.
• 5th. ISO/TC201 Meeting Report.
  Including a summary of the work of each standards committee.
• CSMA Roadshow 1996 Regional Seminars
• Surface Science Questionaire

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• Newsletter no.20, Spring 1996

• Index
• Surface Modification by Design (or Accident?).
  Report on the January meeting at Aston University.
• Report of ISO/TC 201 Meeting in Pacifico Yokohama
• New VAMAS Project - XPS of Insulators

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• Newsletter no.19, Autumn 1995

• Index
• In Support of Manufacturing.
  Report on the July meeting at Cranfield University
• The UK ESCA Users Group AGM.
  Report of the minutes of the AGM
• Reference Materials for Surface Analysis.
  Questionnaire
• British Standards Institute, Secretariat CII/60 - Surface Chemical Analysis.
  Report of Progress of CII/60 and ISO/TC 201.

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• Newsletter no.18, Spring 1995

• Index
• Physico-Chemical Parameters from Surface Analysis.
  Report on the January meeting at Cranfield University.
• News in Brief
• Report of ISO/TC 201 Meeting in Golden, Colorado
• Report on the 41st National Symposium of the American Vacuum Society