Study of Coating Geometries and Photoluminescence Properties of Metal Nanoparticles/Graphite Composites

Table 1

Element’s amount on sample surface and XPS main line position evaluated from XPS data.

	Element’s amount (%)		XPS main line position (eV)
Ag/HOPG
Carbon	91.87	C 1s	284.5/287.2
Oxygen	7.26	O 1s	531.5
Silver	0.87	Ag 3d 3/2	374.3
Au/HOPG
Carbon	87.52	C 1s	284.2/286.7
Oxygen	11.80	O 1s	530.9
Golden	0.67	Au 4f 7/2	83.62
Co/HOPG
Carbon	91.4	C 1s	284.3/286.9
Oxygen	6.22	O 1s	531.2
Cobalt	2.34	Co 2p	778.1