Back to Homepage

EMAS 2006
7th EMAS Regional Workshop on
Electron Probe Microanalysis Today – Practical Aspects

13th – 16th May 2006
Schloss Karlsruhe, Germany

The next in this series of highly successful workshops will be held from Saturday 13 May to Tuesday 16 May 2007, at the Schloss Karlsruhe in Karlsruhe (Germany).

Scientific programme

The scientific contents of this Regional Workshop is basically an educational short course on electron probe microanalysis (EPMA).  The whole of Sunday, and Monday up to the afternoon coffee break, will deal with the fundamentals of electron microprobe analysis. Afterwards, the workshop theme will change to microbeam analysis applications in the nuclear industry.  In this context, a wide range of topics of general interest will be covered, including gas analysis by EPMA, the use of microbeam analysis in combating the smuggling of nuclear materials, and secondary ion mass spectrometry as an alternative analysis technique to EPMA.

Preliminary Programme

Saturday May 13

17:00    Registration (in Renaissance Hotel, Karlsruhe)

19:00    Welcome buffet (in Renaissance Hotel, Karlsruhe)

Sunday May 14

08:00     Registration

09:00     Welcome and Opening Address

              Director Joint Research Centre - Institute for Transuranium Elements

              President of EMAS

09:30     Introduction to EPMA and SEM, Hans Dijkstra, Thermo Electron BV, Breda, The Netherlands

10:30     Coffee break

11:00     Performance Characteristics of WDS and EDS Detectors, Mike B. Matthews, AWE Plc., Aldermaston, UK

12:00     Sample Preparation for EPMA, Silvia Richter, RWTH Aachen, Germany

13:00     Lunch break

14:00     Quantitative Electron Probe Microanalysis: Electron Beam – Specimen Interactions, Guillaume F. Bastin, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands

15:00     Basic Monte Carlo Simulation as applied to EPMA, Xavier Llovet, University of Barcelona, Spain

16:00     Coffee break / Poster Session I

17:00     Round Table Discussion: SEM, EPMA - EDS/WDS,  Moderator: János Lábár, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Research Institute for Technical Physics & Materials Science, Budapest, Hungary

18:00     End of first day

Monday May 15

09:00     Light Element Analysis, Werner Rehbach, RWTH-Aachen, Germany

10:00     Electron Probe Microanalysis of Thin Films, Guillaume F. Bastin, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands

11:00     Coffee break

11:30     Introduction to TEM and X-ray Microanalysis in the TEM, Hans Dijkstra, Thermo Electron BV, Breda, The Netherlands

12.30     Lunch break

13.30     Workshop photograph

13.45     Problems Encountered in EDS Analysis, Michael Wendt, Institut für Physikalische Hochtechnologie, Jena, Germany

14:45     Round Table Discussion: Light Elements, Thin Films and Quantification,  Moderator: Guillaume F. Bastin, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands

15:45     Coffee break / Poster Session II

16:45     EPMA of the Actinide Elements, Clive T. Walker, JRC - Institute for Transuranium Elements, Karlsruhe, Germany

17:15     Microbeam Analysis of Irradiated Materials - Practical Aspects, Jérôme Lamontagne, CEA Cadarache, St. Paul lez Durance, France

17:45     End of second day

19:00     Conference Dinner

Tuesday May 16

09:00     EPMA of Retained Fission Gas in Irradiated Nuclear Fuel, Sven Van den Berghe, SCK-CEN, Mol, Belgium

09:30     Microbeam Analysis in Combating Smuggling of Nuclear Materials, I.L.F. Ray, JRC - Institute for Transuranium Elements, Karlsruhe, Germany

10:00     Application of Quantitative X-ray Mapping to the Characterisation of Nuclear Fuel, Stéphane Brèmier, JRC - Institute for Transuranium Elements, Karlsruhe, Germany

10:30     Microanalysis of Nuclear Samples with the Cyclotron, Melissa Denecke, Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe - INE, Karlsruhe, Germany

11:00     Coffee break

11:30     X-ray Photoelectron Spectrometry of 5f Materials, Thomas Gouder, JRC   Institute for Transuranium Elements, Karlsruhe, Germany

12:00     SIMS as an Alternative to EPMA for the Analysis of Nuclear Fuel, Lionel Desgranges, CEA Cadarache, St. Paul lez Durance, France

12:30     Round Table Discussion: Microbeam Analysis of Irradiated Nuclear Fuel: Future Requirements,  Moderator: Clive. T. Walker, JRC - Institute for Transuranium Elements, Karlsruhe, Germany

13:00     Concluding Remarks

13:10      Lunch / End of Workshop

14:00      Buses depart for Frankfurt airport & Karlsruhe railway station.

Details about registration and hotel accommodation will become available later.

Last updated: 13 November 2003

Back to Homepage