Price Member: EUR 42 each
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13 - 16 May 2006
Karlsruhe, Germany
Book of Tutorials & Abstracts
Edited by: C. T. Walker
Table of Contents
- Foreword 5
- European Microbeam Analysis Society: Executive Board
Sustaining Companies 9
- EMAS 2006 International Scientific and Local Organising Committees 11
- Workshop programme 13
- Principles of electron probe microanalysis 15
Quantitative electron probe microanalysis - Electron beam specimen interactions. 17
Guillaume F. Bastin and H.J.M. Heijligers
Electron probe microanalysis of thin films. 33
Guillaume F. Bastin
Introduction to EPMA and SEM. 59
Hans Dijkstra
Introduction to TEM and X-ray microanalysis in the TEM. 69
Hans Dijkstra
Basic Monte Carlo simulation for EPMA. 75
Xavier Llovet
Performance characteristics of WDS and EDS detectors. 89
Michael B. Matthews
Light element analysis. 117
Werner P. Rehbach
Sample preparation for EPMA. 137
Silvia Richter and J. Mayer
Problems encountered in EDS analysis. 165
Michael Wendt
- Applications of microbeam analysis to nuclear materials 181
Application of quantitative X-ray mapping to the characterisation of nuclear materials. 183
Stéphane Brémier, J.M. Chareau and C.T. Walker
Microanalysis of nuclear samples at the synchrotron. 199
Melissa Denecke
SIMS as an alternative to EPMA for the analysis of nuclear fuel. 219
Lionel Desgranges, Ch. Valot and B. Pasquet
X-ray photoelectron spectrometry of actinide materials – Thin film studies. 231
Thomas Gouder
Microbeam analysis of irradiated materials – practical aspects. 245
Jérôme Lamontagne, T. Blay and I. Roure
Microbeam analysis in combating smuggling of nuclear materials. 255
Ian L.F. Ray, H. Thiele and T. Wiss
EPMA of retained fission gas in irradiated nuclear fuel. 265
Sven Van den Berghe
Electron probe microanalysis of actinide elements. 279
Clive T. Walker and S. Brémier
- Abstracts of the poster presentations 303
