Chennai: Pondicherry University Vice-Chancellor Prof Gurmeet Singh on Thursday inaugurated a sophisticated instrument, X-ray Photoelectron Spectrometer (XPS) at the Central Instrumentation Facility (CIF).
A release from the University said the XPS was sponsored by the Department of Science and Technology-Promotion of University Research and Scientific Excellence (DST-PURSE) program.
It was inaugurated in the presence of Prof Bala Manimaran, the Centre Head of CIF, Prof V V Ravi Kanth Kumar, Professor and Head, Department of Physics and the DST-PURSE Phase-II Coordinator, K Suresh Babu, Faculty in charge of XPS and Assistant Professor of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology and the staff members of CIF.
The XPS is a versatile instrument to analyse the surface chemistry of a material with nanometer accuracy.
Many instances surface properties differ from that of the inside. XPS provides elemental chemical information and its concentration from the surface.