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The Application of Tunable Monochromatic Synchrotron Radiation to the Quantitative Determination of Trace Elements

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 March 2019

R. D. Giauque ,
J. M. Jaklevic  and
A. C. Thompson
R. D. Giauque
Affiliation:
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory University of California Berkeley, CA 94720 U.S.A.
J. M. Jaklevic
Affiliation:
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory University of California Berkeley, CA 94720 U.S.A.
A. C. Thompson
Affiliation:
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory University of California Berkeley, CA 94720 U.S.A.
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The potential advantages of synchrotron sources for x-ray fluorescence analysis have been discussed by several authors. These advantages include high incident flux, tunable excitation energies using crystal monochromators, and reduction of scattered background due to polarization effects. Minimum detectable limits have both been calculated and measured, and have demonstrated the improvements that can be achieved vising synchrotron sources. In this paper we present results obtained using tunable, monochromatic excitation and a high resolution lithium-drifted silicon, Si(Li), spectrometer for the quantitative analysis of a variety of sample types. Our experiments were designed to investigate the advantages and limitations of tunable monochromatic excitation with respect to optimum sensitivity, accuracy, and elemental selectivity in energy dispersive x-ray fluorescence analysis.

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III. New Techniques and Instrumentation in XRF
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Advances in X-Ray Analysis , Volume 28: Thirty-Third Annual Conference on Applications of X-ray Analysis, July 30 - August 3, 1984 , 1984 , pp. 53 - 60
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Copyright © International Centre for Diffraction Data 1984

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