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Rutherford Backscattering Spectrometry

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RBS is a method to determine the absolute elemental composition, usually of thin films (t ~ several tens or hundreds nm) deposited on substrates.

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Sekiba, D. (2018). Rutherford Backscattering Spectrometry. In: The Surface Science Society of Japan (eds) Compendium of Surface and Interface Analysis. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-6156-1_87

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