PIXE-quantified AXSIA: Elemental mapping by multivariate spectral analysis

Author(s):  
B.L. Doyle ◽  
P.P. Provencio ◽  
P.G. Kotula ◽  
A.J. Antolak ◽  
C.G. Ryan ◽  
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Author(s):  
D. R. Liu ◽  
S. S. Shinozaki ◽  
J. S. Park ◽  
B. N. Juterbock

The electric and thermal properties of the resistor material in an automotive spark plug should be stable during its service lifetime. Containing many elements and many phases, this material has a very complex microstructure. Elemental mapping with an electron microprobe can reveal the distribution of all relevant elements throughout the sample. In this work, it is demonstrated that the charge-up effect, which would distort an electron image and, therefore, is normally to be avoided in an electron imaging work, could be used to advantage to reveal conductive and resistive zones in a sample. Its combination with elemental mapping can provide valuable insight into the underlying conductivity mechanism of the resistor.This work was performed in a CAMECA SX-50 microprobe. The spark plug used in the present report was a commercial product taken from the shelf. It was sectioned to expose the cross section of the resistor. The resistor was known not to contain the precious metal Au as checked on the carbon coated sample. The sample was then stripped of carbon coating and re-coated with Au.


Author(s):  
J. Bentley ◽  
E. A. Kenik ◽  
K. Siangchaew ◽  
M. Libera

Quantitative elemental mapping by inner shell core-loss energy-filtered transmission electron microscopy (TEM) with a Gatan Imaging Filter (GIF) interfaced to a Philips CM30 TEM operated with a LaB6 filament at 300 kV has been applied to interfaces in a range of materials. Typically, 15s exposures, slit width Δ = 30 eV, TEM magnifications ∼2000 to 5000×, and probe currents ≥200 nA, were used. Net core-loss maps were produced by AE−r background extrapolation from two pre-edge windows. Zero-loss I0 (Δ ≈ 5 eV) and “total” intensity IT (unfiltered, no slit) images were used to produce maps of t/λ = ln(IT/I0), where λ is the total inelastic mean free path. Core-loss images were corrected for diffraction contrast by normalization with low-loss images recorded with the same slit width, and for changes in thickness by normalization with t/λ, maps. Such corrected images have intensities proportional to the concentration in atoms per unit volume. Jump-ratio images (post-edge divided by pre-edge) were also produced. Spectrum lines across planar interfaces were recorded with TEM illumination by operating the GIF in the spectroscopy mode with an area-selecting slit oriented normal to the energy-dispersion direction. Planar interfaces were oriented normal to the area-selecting slit with a specimen rotation holder.


2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ji Ha Lee ◽  
Sung Won Choi ◽  
Ji Sun Min ◽  
Eun Ju Jaekal ◽  
Gyhye Sung

1953 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. J. Burke ◽  
R. Narasimhan ◽  
O. J. Benepe

2005 ◽  
Vol 25 (1_suppl) ◽  
pp. S590-S590 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rainer Hinz ◽  
Gunnar Blomquist ◽  
Paul Edison ◽  
David J Brooks

2005 ◽  
Vol 25 (1_suppl) ◽  
pp. S634-S634 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yun Zhou ◽  
Weiguo Ye ◽  
James R Brasic ◽  
Mohab Alexander ◽  
John Hilton ◽  
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