PROCEEDINGS OF THE 7TH REGIONAL WORKSHOP (EMAS 2006)
ELECTRON PROBE MICROANALYSIS TODAY - PRACTICAL ASPECTS
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