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Measurements of Soft and Ultrasoft X-Rays with Total Reflection Monochromator

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 March 2019

Tomoya Arai*
Affiliation:
Rigaku Industrial Corporation, Akaoji Takatsuki, Osaka, Japan
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The development of X-ray spectrographic analysis of light elements, which are O, C and B, has bee n performed for many applications using an end-window type X-ray tube with Rh-target and thin Be-window, wavelength dispersing devices, which are synthetic multilayers or total reflection mirror (with a specific filter) and a gas flow proportional counter with a thin film window. In Fig. 1 factors related to the intensity measurements in X-ray fluorescence analysis are shown. The excitation efficiency in the soft and ultrasoft X-ray region is very low because of the lower intensity of primary X-rays and low fluorescence yield of light elements. Instead of the wavelength dispersive method of Bragg reflection, having high resolution and low reflectivity, monochromatization combining total reflection by a selected mirror and an appropriate filter offered an alternate approach in order to increase measured intensity with reasonable optical resolution. Synthetic multilayers which have higher resolution and lower intensity compared with the performance of the mirror method have become popular for the detection of soft and ultrasoft X-ray region.

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IV. Recent Developments in XRF Dispersion Devices
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Copyright © International Centre for Diffraction Data 1986

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