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The application of a multichannel chart recorder to energy‐dispersive analysis in the scanning electron microscope
Author(s) -
Sharp R. M.
Publication year - 1977
Publication title -
x‐ray spectrometry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.447
H-Index - 45
eISSN - 1097-4539
pISSN - 0049-8246
DOI - 10.1002/xrs.1300060309
Subject(s) - chart , energy (signal processing) , scanning electron microscope , computer science , tape recorder , microscope , optics , materials science , engineering , electrical engineering , physics , mathematics , statistics
This paper describes a recently developed multichannel chart recorder and shows how it can be applied to the display of data from the scanning electron microscope energy‐dispersive analysis system. Advantages and limitations are outlined. The advantage of the recorder is that it provides hard‐copy data with extremely fast analysis times. A limitation is that the system is only semi‐quantitative. Three applications in which the use of the recorder has proved advantageous are described: the fields of metallurgy, mineralogy and forensic science.