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X-Ray Tubes for Energy Dispersive XRF Spectrometry

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 March 2019

Brian Skillicorn
Brian Skillicorn*
Affiliation:
Kevex Corporation, X-ray Tube Division P.O. Box 66860 Scotts Valley, California 95066
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Extract

X-ray tubes are used extensively in energy dispersive x-ray spectrometers in preference to radioactive sources because of their high output, variable intensity and tuneable energy spectrum. Tubes for this application have certain requirements which make them different in detail from the more common radiographic or therapy tubes and this paper sets out to present a review of some of the fundamental features of modern spectrometry grade tubes.

Type
I. XRF Detectors and XRF Instrumentation
Information
Advances in X-Ray Analysis , Volume 25: Thirtieth Annual Conference on Applications of X-ray Analysis, August 3-7, 1981 , 1981 , pp. 49 - 57
Copyright
Copyright © International Centre for Diffraction Data 1981

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