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The nuclear microprobe—advances in micro PIXE and complementary techniques
Author(s) -
Malmqvist Klas
Publication year - 1995
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.1300240503
Subject(s) - microprobe , electron microprobe , microanalysis , electron probe microanalysis , nuclear physics , materials science , radiochemistry , analytical chemistry (journal) , chemistry , physics , mineralogy , organic chemistry , chromatography
The nuclear microprobe is an analytical instrument using ion beams produced in accelerators, which generate charged particles with energies of MeV as compared with keV for the electrons used in electron microscopes. The dependence on such an accelerator obviously limits the direct use of the nuclear microprobe in most analytical laboratories and represents an important drawback. However, it is demonstrated that although the nuclear microprobe is a complex technique, it is still a powerful instrument with some unique properties for quantitative trace element microanalysis and imaging.