Surface chemical analysis by XPS is more than 60 years old. During the last 15 years ther-e has been an explosive growth in the publication of XPS peak-fits and interpretations. Unfortunately, these publications suffer from a variety of problems in reliability and usefulness because the new authors are not familiar enough with the science and application of XPS, chemical state assignments, and peak-fitting. Efforts to help new users include journal publications such as self-training guides for peak-fitting, international standards, collections of BEs, examples of peak-fitting, and more. These user guides are useful and are published in journals that are known to publish XPS information. The basics of XPS are taught at a few graduate level courses in universities and there are 3–5 day training courses at conferences, but the need is much greater. To help the international XPS community and the infrequent users of XPS to overcome these limitations, problems and needs, The XPS Library™ was formed as a non-profit institute to provide an on-line resource of XPS information, self-training material, free >70,000 monochromatic XPS reference spectra, free spectral data processing software, reference tables, links, examples of good and bad peak-fitting, and more. In 1986, this author began to build The XPS Spectra-Base™ by collecting and organizing detailed sets of “self-consistent” monochromatic XPS spectra from reference materials, natural crystals, man-made single crystals, and commercial products. The current number of individual spectra in digital form is >70,000 and the number of materials is >9,000. Each set of spectra (4–10) is stored inside individual data directories having the name of the material analyzed. Multiple data directories belonging to the same category are placed in a directory with the name of that category. Each category name is distinct and is based on the chemistry of the materials. Currently, “XPS Library” members must download individual sets of spectra or full directories that are stored in ZIP files. To view, peak-fit, export, analyze, overlay, process, or print the spectra provided by The XPS Spectra-Base the library member needs a software that can import or directly open spectra having: VAMAS-ISO 14,976 ASCII file format, other ASCII file formats (XY, XYZ), or the SDP binary file format. Most software from the instrument makers can import these types of spectra. The “Spectral Data Processor” (SDP™) v8.0 is a 32-bit Windows™ (v7−10 compatible) software is provided free of charge to library members. Using SDP v8 the user can: (a) access and open the raw or processed spectra downloaded from The XPS Spectra-Base, (b) save all processing results and labels to permanent memory, (c) completely reprocess, peak-fit, analyze, overlay, process, or print the spectra, (d) export or save the raw or processed spectra in VAMAS-ISO ASCII and other ASCII file formats, and (e) import spectra having VAMAS-ISO 14,976 ASCII file format and other ASCII file formats (XY, XYZ). Several thousand High Energy Resolution Auger Electron Spectra (HER-AES) from insulators, conductors, and native oxides will be added. All spectra are owned, copyrighted, and are the property of The XPS Library and are protected by a registered international copyright (TX 4−560-881).

XPS的表面化学分析已有60多年的历史了。在过去的15年中，ther-e在XPS峰值拟合和解释的发布中呈爆炸性增长。不幸的是，由于新作者对XPS的科学和应用，化学状态分配和峰拟合不足够熟悉，因此这些出版物在可靠性和实用性方面遭受各种问题的困扰。帮助新用户的工作包括期刊出版物，例如峰拟合的自我培训指南，国际标准，BE的集合，峰拟合的示例等。这些用户指南很有用，并在已知会发布XPS信息的期刊中发布。XPS的基础知识是在大学的一些研究生水平课程中教授的，会议中有3-5天的培训课程，但需求量更大。为了帮助国际XPS社区和不经常使用XPS的用户克服这些局限性，问题和需求，XPS Library™作为一个非营利性机构而成立，旨在提供XPS信息的在线资源，自学资料，免费超过70,000个单色XPS参考光谱，免费光谱数据处理软件，参考表，链接，峰拟合的好坏示例等等。1986年，该作者开始通过收集和组织参考材料，天然晶体，人造单晶和商业产品的“自洽”单色XPS光谱的详细集合来构建XPS Spectra-Base™。当前数字形式的单个光谱数大于70,000，材料数大于9,000。每套光谱（4–10）存储在单独的数据目录中，该目录中包含所分析材料的名称。属于同一类别的多个数据目录被放置在具有该类别名称的目录中。每个类别名称都是不同的，并且基于材料的化学性质。当前，“ XPS库”成员必须下载存储在ZIP文件中的单个光谱集或完整目录。要查看，峰拟合，导出，分析，叠加，处理或打印XPS Spectra-Base提供的光谱，库成员需要一个可以导入或直接打开具有以下特征的光谱的软件：VAMAS-ISO 14,976 ASCII文件格式，其他ASCII文件格式（XY，XYZ）或SDP二进制文件格式。仪器制造商提供的大多数软件都可以导入这些类型的光谱。“光谱数据处理器”（SDP™）v8。0是免费向库成员提供的32位Windows™（兼容v7-10）软件。使用SDP v8，用户可以：（a）访问并打开从XPS Spectra-Base下载的原始或处理过的光谱，（b）将所有处理结果和标签保存到永久存储器中，（c）完全重新处理，峰拟合，分析，叠加，处理或打印光谱，（d）以VAMAS-ISO ASCII和其他ASCII文件格式导出或保存原始或已处理的光谱，以及（e）导入具有VAMAS-ISO 14,976 ASCII文件格式和其他ASCII文件的光谱格式（XY，XYZ）。将添加来自绝缘体，导体和天然氧化物的几千个高能分辨率俄歇电子能谱（HER-AES）。所有光谱均归XPS库所有，并受其版权保护，并受到注册的国际版权（TX 4-560-881）的保护。