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X-ray Capillary Microbeam Spectrometer

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 March 2019

S. Larsson ,
P. Engstrom ,
A. Rindby  and
B. Stocklassa
S. Larsson
Affiliation:
Chalmers University of Technology Physics Dept, S-412 96 Goteborg, Sweden
P. Engstrom
Affiliation:
Chalmers University of Technology Physics Dept, S-412 96 Goteborg, Sweden
A. Rindby
Affiliation:
Chalmers University of Technology Physics Dept, S-412 96 Goteborg, Sweden
B. Stocklassa
Affiliation:
National Laboratory of Forensic Science Linkoping, Sweden
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Abstract

By utilizing the total reflecting properties of x-rays inside glass capillary tubes, intensive fine- or microbeams of x-rays can be attained. By using a conventional x-ray tube in combination with capillary technique, microbeams with a diameter of a few μm and with an intensity sufficient for trace elements, analyses have been achieved. By moving the sample, lineand areascan can be performed and trace element information can be directly superimposed on a micrograph from a built-in optical microscope.

The background of the capillary technique is reviewed and an EDXRF microbeam spectrometer for trace elements is described. Examples of applications for the microbeam spectrometer are given.

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Research Article
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Advances in X-Ray Analysis , Volume 33: Thirty-Eighth Annual Conference on Applications of X-ray Analysis, July 31 - August 4, 1989 , 1989 , pp. 623 - 628
Copyright
Copyright © International Centre for Diffraction Data 1989

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