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Improvement of the Detection Sensitivity of Edxrf Trace Element Analysis by Means of Efficient X-Ray Focusing Based on Strongly Curved Hopg Crystals

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 March 2019

Burkhard Beckhoff  and
Birgit Kanngießer
Burkhard Beckhoff
Affiliation:
University of Bremen, Department of Physics, P.O. 330 440, D-28334 Bremen, Germany
Birgit Kanngießer
Affiliation:
University of Bremen, Department of Physics, P.O. 330 440, D-28334 Bremen, Germany
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Abstract

X-ray focusing based on Bragg reflection at curved crystals allows collection of a large solid angle of incident radiation, monochromatization of this radiation, and condensation of the beam reflected at the crystal into a small spatial cross-section in a pre-selected focal plane. Thus, for the Bragg reflected radiation, one can achieve higher intensities than for the radiation passing directly to the same small area in the focal plane. In that case one can profit considerably from X-ray focusing in an EDXRF arrangement. The 00 2 reflection at Highly Oriented Pyrolytic Graphite (HOPG) crystals offers a very high intensity of the Bragg reflected beam for a wide range of photon energies. Furthermore, curvature radii smaller than 10 mm can be achieved for HOPG crystals ensuring efficient X-ray focusing in EDXRF applications. For the trace analysis of very small amounts of specimen material deposited on small areas of thin-filter backings, HOPG based X-ray focusing may be used to achieve a very high intensity of monochromatic excitation radiation.

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Advances in X-Ray Analysis , Volume 39: Forty-Fourth Annual Conference on Applications of X-ray Analysis, July 31 - August 4, 1995 , 1995 , pp. 109 - 117
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Copyright © International Centre for Diffraction Data 1995

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