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X-ray Detectors: Pulse Height Shifts, Escape Peaks and Counting Losses

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 March 2019

Michael A. Short
Michael A. Short*
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SRS Technologies 3501 Jamboree Roadr #402 Newport Beach, CA 92660
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With the ever increasing emphasis on computer-controlled hardware, computerized data processing and computer-based display of results, there is a tendency to forget the operating characteristics of some of the older, more mundane, components of X-ray diffractometers and X-ray fluorescence analysis units. We place our trust in the specifications of the components supplied by the equipment manufacturers and, while usually complete, it nevertheless behooves us to be well aware of the operation of the various hardware components of diffractometers and spectrometers.

Type
VII. Solid State and Position-Sensitive Detectors for XRD
Information
Advances in X-Ray Analysis , Volume 34: Thirty-Ninth Annual Conference on Applications of X-ray Analysis, July 30 - August 3, 1990 , 1990 , pp. 319 - 324
Copyright
Copyright © International Centre for Diffraction Data 1990

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