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Applications of a Laboratory X-ray Micropsobe to Materials Analysis

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 March 2019

D. A. Carpenter ,
M. A. Taylor  and
C. E. Holcombe
D. A. Carpenter
Affiliation:
Oak Ridge Y-12 Plant, *, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831-8084
M. A. Taylor
Affiliation:
Oak Ridge Y-12 Plant, *, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831-8084
C. E. Holcombe
Affiliation:
Oak Ridge Y-12 Plant, *, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831-8084
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A laboratory-based X-ray microprobe, composed of a high-brilliance microfocus X-ray tube, coupled with a small glass capillary, has been developed for materials applications. Because of total external reflectance of X rays from the smooth inside bore of the glass capillary, the microprobe has a high sensitivity as well as a high spatial resolution. The use of X rays to excite elemental fluorescence offers the advantages of good peak-to-background, the ability to operate in air, and minimal specimen preparation. In addition, the development of laboratory-based instrumentation has been of Interest recently because of greater accessibility when compared with synchrotron X-ray microprobes.

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IV. Techniques and XRF Instrumentation
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Advances in X-Ray Analysis , Volume 32: Thirty-Seventh Annual Conference on Applications of X-ray Analysis, August 1-5, 1988 , 1988 , pp. 115 - 120
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Copyright © International Centre for Diffraction Data 1988

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