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- Title
Comparing Elemental Sensitivities Obtained With an Aperture and a Monolithic Polycapillary Optic Using a Commercial Micro-X-Ray Fluorescence (MXRF) Instrument.
- Authors
Worley, C. G.; Colletti, L. P.; Havrilla, G. J.
- Abstract
Recent MXRF reports have demonstrated marked x-ray flux enhancements over traditional aperturecollimating systems when using a total reflection capillary optic. In the present work, several standard reference materials (SRMs) were examined with a Kevex Omicron MXRF system to compare the elemental sensitivities achieved with an aperture x-ray guide to those obtained with a monolithic polycapillary optic (X-ray Optical Systems). This study is relevant to the MXRF community using commercial aperture-based instruments where trace elemental concentrations in a sample sometimes mandate the need for a higher primary x-ray dose, but the flexibility of incorporating various sized apertures for other samples is still maintained. By scanning the x-ray beam over a nickel/gold knife edge, the capillary focal spot diameter at the time of this work was determined to be ∼400 μm, while a 300 μm aperture provided a beam size of ∼550 μm due to beam divergence past the aperture.
- Publication
Microscopy & Microanalysis, 1998, p380
- ISSN
1431-9276
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1017/S1431927600022029