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                        \item Number of applications where high absorbance into IR is required
                        \item These have all been studied before though. 
                \end{itemize}
-               \item They are the way of the future. Embrace the future.
                \item The electron spectra of metal-blacks have not yet been examined.
                \item Remarkable difference between Metal-Black films (bad vacuum) and normal metal films (UHV)
                \begin{itemize}
-                       \item No (detailed/satisfactory) explanation (that I can find :P) for difference
+                       \item No (detailed/satisfactory) explanation (that I can find...) for difference
                \end{itemize}
                \item Talk about plasmonic based computing? Moore's law? Applications to thin film solar cells?
 
@@ -137,12 +136,15 @@ Summarise the literature, refer to past research etc
                \begin{itemize}
                        \item Simplest case is a step potential.
                        \item Various improvements on this model, discussed in Komolov's book.
-                       \item It would be interesting to adapt my CQM project to numerically solve for an electron entering the various potentials
                        \begin{itemize}
-                               \item Only do this when EVERYTHING ELSE is done! Otherwise I will get too involved with it!
+                               \item Possibly adapt CQM project to model these potentials, if I get time
                        \end{itemize}
                \end{itemize}
                \item Limitations of theoretical models
+               \begin{itemize}
+                       \item Real surface is not a step potential
+                       \item Adsorption of foreign particles onto the surface also plays a large role in determining the electron spectrum.
+               \end{itemize}
        \end{itemize}
        \item Main reference: Komolov "Total Current Spectroscopy"
        \item "Solid State Physics" textbooks and "Electron Spectroscopy" textbooks 
@@ -276,7 +278,7 @@ I really think I should actually find plasmonic effects before writing too much
        \item Wrote software for data aquisition and data processing
 \end{itemize}
 
-\section{Experimental Difficulties / Detailed stuff / Appendix}
+\section{General notes}
 \subsection{TCS}
 \begin{itemize}
        \item Optimise setup of gun