Open Course Space

Electron Microprobe Analysis

Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyUnited States12.141
Free, no sign-up neededJanuary IAP 2012English
Go to course on MIT OpenCourseWare

The electron microprobe provides a complete micrometer-scale quantitative chemical analysis of inorganic solids. The method is nondestructive and utilizes characteristic X-rays excited by an electron beam incident on a flat surface of the sample. This course provides an introduction to the theory of X-ray microanalysis through wavelength and energy dispersive spectrometry (WDS and EDS), ZAF matrix correction procedures and scanning electron imaging with back-scattered electron (BSE), secondary…

Description from MIT OpenCourseWare.

Where to take this course