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Characteristic and Continuum Fluorescence in Electron Beam X-ray Microanalysis

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 July 2020

C.E. Nockolds
C.E. Nockolds*
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Key Centre for Microscopy and Microanalysis, University of Sydney, NSW, 2006, Australia
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Of the different aspects of electron probe microanalysis(EPMA)which were studied by Castaing during his doctorate the work on characteristic x-ray fluorescence was the most definitive. In his thesis, which was completed in 1951, Castaing established the physical and mathematical framework for a correction procedure for fluorescence which is essentially still used in EPMA today. Much of the effort since then has been in refining and improving the accuracy of the correction and extending the scope of the correction to a wider range of specimen types. The Castaing formula was developed for the case of a K x-ray from element A being excited by a K xray from element B (K-K fluorescence) and in 1965 Reed extended the range of the correction by including the K-L, L-L and L-K interactions. In the same paper Reed also introduced the expression from Green and Cosslett for the calculation of K intensities, which was believed to be more accurate than the expression used by Castaing. The original formula included a somewhat unrealistic exponential term to allow for the depth of the production of the primary x-rays and a number of workers have tried replacing this term with a more accurate expression, however, in general this has led to only small changes in the final correction. Reed also simplified the formula in order to make the calculation easier in the days before fast computers; in particular he replaced the jump ratio variable by two constants, one for the K-shell and one for the L-shell. Much later Heinrich showed that this simplification was no longer necessary and that the jump ratio could in fact be calculated directly.

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MAS Celebrates: Fifty Years of Electron Probe Microanalysis
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Microscopy and Microanalysis , Volume 5 , Issue S2: Proceedings: Microscopy & Microanalysis '99, Microscopy Society of America 57th Annual Meeting, Microbeam Analysis Society 33rd Annual Meeting, Portland, Oregon August 1-5, 1999 , August 1999 , pp. 562 - 563
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