TY - JOUR A1 - Görner, Wolf A1 - Alber, D. A1 - Berger, Achim A1 - Haase, Oskar A1 - Monse, G. A1 - Segebade, Christian T1 - BEAMGAA - A chance for high precision analysis of big samples N2 - In activation analysis of traces in small samples, the non-equivalence of the activating radiation doses of sample and calibration material gives rise to sometimes tolerable systematic errors. Conversely, analysis of major components usually demands high trueness and precision. To meet this, beam geometry activation analysis (BEAMGAA) procedures have been developed for instrumental photon (IPAA) and neutron activation analysis (INAA) in which the activating neutron/photon beam exhibits broad, flat-topped characteristics. This results in a very low lateral activating flux gradient compared to known radiation facilities, however, at significantly lower flux density. The axial flux gradient can be accounted for by a monitor-sample-monitor assembly. As a first approach, major components were determined in high purity substances as well as selenium in a cattle fodder additive. T2 - 6th International Conference "Methods and Applications of Radioanalytical Chemistry" CY - Kailua-Kona, HI, United States of America DA - 2003-04-07 KW - Beam geometry activation analysis KW - Flux gradients KW - Measurement regime KW - Representativity KW - Big samples PY - 2005 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1007/s10967-005-0660-6 SN - 0236-5731 SN - 1588-2780 SN - 1417-2097 VL - 263 IS - 3 SP - 791 EP - 796 PB - Elsevier Sequoia CY - Lausanne AN - OPUS4-6907 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - GEN A1 - Berger, Achim A1 - Alber, D. T1 - Bestimmung von Kobalt in Nickel bei Gehalten im sub-mu/g Bereich T2 - GDCh-Jahrestagung Chemie 2003 ; Jahrestagung der Fachgruppe Nuklearchemie ; 19. Seminar Aktivierungsanalyse CY - München, Deutschland DA - 2003-10-06 PY - 2003 SN - 3-936028-14-1 N1 - Serientitel: Kurzreferate / GDCh-Jahrestagung Chemie 2003 – Series title: Kurzreferate / GDCh-Jahrestagung Chemie 2003 IS - 5 SP - 4 PB - Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker CY - Frankfurt am Main AN - OPUS4-2675 LA - deu AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Dudek, Gabriele A1 - Pritzkow, Wolfgang A1 - Riebe, Gundel A1 - Görner, Wolf A1 - Alber, D. T1 - Characterization of neutron transmuted zinc traces in pure copper materials by isotope dilution mass spectrometry N2 - The neutron transmutation doping (NTD) of highly pure copper with zinc was investigated as a promising means of achieving controlled gradation of the zinc content in the range 1-20 wg g-1. The doping process leads to the enrichment of two stable isotopes 64Zn and 66Zn in a ratio which differs from that of natural isotopic distribution. Mass spectrometric investigations by thermal ionization mass spectrometry (TIMS) were performed to validate the results obtained by gamma spectrometry. The investigations included both determination of the isotopic ratios of the doped zinc isotopes and the analysis of the accumulated zinc contents by isotope dilution (ID) analysis. Thereby a sample-specific correction of the blank could be performed because the isotope 68Zn was not influenced, because of the transmutation process. The results obtained by TIMS prove the strict proportionality of the doped zinc content, in the range 5 to 20 wg g-1, to the neutron fluence. Comparison with gamma spectrometric results showed a very good agreement within the uncertainties. PY - 2001 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1007/s002160100784 SN - 0937-0633 N1 - Geburtsname von Dudek, Gabriele: Wermann, G. - Birth name of Dudek, Gabriele: Wermann, G. VL - 370 IS - 5 SP - 606 EP - 611 PB - Springer CY - Berlin AN - OPUS4-1145 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Berger, Achim A1 - Alber, D. A1 - Bukalis, G. T1 - Determination of cobalt in nickel in the sub-ppm level with cold neutrons KW - Neutronenaktivierungsanalyse KW - Neutronenstrahl KW - Referenzmaterialien PY - 2007 SN - 0236-5731 SN - 1588-2780 SN - 1417-2097 VL - 271 IS - 1 SP - 251 EP - 253 PB - Elsevier Sequoia CY - Lausanne AN - OPUS4-14568 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Dudek, Gabriele A1 - Alber, D. A1 - Pritzkow, Wolfgang A1 - Riebe, Gundel A1 - Vogl, Jochen A1 - Görner, Wolf T1 - Determination of the beta- branching ratio of 64Cu by mass spectrometric investigations of the decay products in neutron transmuted copper N2 - The ?- branching ratio of 64Cu was determined by investigating the resulting decay products in copper doped by neutron transmutation. The numbers of 64Zn and 64Ni atoms were analyzed using isotope dilution analysis combined with thermal ionization mass spectrometry. A ?- branching ratio of (38.06±0.30)% was obtained, which agrees with the study of Kawada (Appl. Radiat. Isot. 37 (1) (1986) 7) to a higher accuracy. However, our result differs from the value cited in the NUDAT database of (39.0±0.3)%. KW - NTD KW - Copper KW - Zinc KW - Nickel KW - Branching ratio KW - Cu-64 KW - TIMS KW - IDMS KW - Isotope dilution KW - Thermal ionization mass spectrometry KW - Neutron transmutation doping PY - 2002 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1016/S0969-8043(01)00180-4 SN - 0883-2889 SN - 0969-8043 N1 - Geburtsname von Dudek, Gabriele: Wermann, G. - Birth name of Dudek, Gabriele: Wermann, G. VL - 56 SP - 145 EP - 151 PB - Elsevier CY - Amsterdam AN - OPUS4-7221 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Mans, C. A1 - Simons, C. A1 - Hanning, S. A1 - Janßen, A. A1 - Alber, D. A1 - Radtke, Martin A1 - Reinholz, Uwe A1 - Bühler, A. A1 - Kreyenschmidt, M. T1 - New polymeric candidate reference materials for XRF and LA-ICP-MS - development and preliminary characterization N2 - A set of ten calibration materials based on acrylonitrile-butadiene-styrene terpolymer (ABS) containing the elements Br, Pb, Cd, Cr, and Hg was produced in order to control polymer samples in regard to the restriction on the use of certain hazardous substances (RoHS) directive. The materials were produced with respect to the special demands of X-ray fluorescence analysis (XRF) and inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry in combination with laser ablation (LA-ICP-MS). The mass fractions of all elements were 0-1500 mg/kg and the materials were produced as granulates and solid discs with a diameter of 40 mm and thicknesses of 1, 2, and 6 mm. It could be shown that the signals measured by XRF strongly depend on the thickness of polymeric samples. Macroscopic homogeneity was assessed with XRF measuring a total of 180 samples. The microscopic homogeneities were determined for a material with average elemental mass fractions with the aid of synchrotron radiation (SR) µ-XRF and LA-ICP-MS. Sufficient macroscopic and microscopic homogeneities for all elements could be achieved. It was observed that organic additives show a better homogeneity than oxides. XRF and LA-ICP-MS were successfully calibrated with the new materials. Limits of detection were in the range of 0.4-22 mg/kg for XRF and 2.3-26.8 mg/kg for LA-ICP-MS. The materials are considered as candidate reference materials (RM) by the Federal Institute of Materials Research and Testing (BAM, Germany). KW - XRF KW - LA.ICP-MS Plastics KW - RoHS KW - CRM PY - 2009 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1002/xrs.1120 SN - 0049-8246 VL - 38 IS - 1 SP - 52 EP - 57 PB - Wiley CY - Chichester AN - OPUS4-18681 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Simons, C. A1 - Mans, C. A1 - Hanning, S. A1 - Janßen, A. A1 - Radtke, Martin A1 - Reinholz, Uwe A1 - Ostermann, Markus A1 - Michaelis, Matthias A1 - Wienold, Julia A1 - Alber, D. A1 - Kreyenschmidt, M. T1 - Study on microscopic homogeneity of polymeric candidate reference materials BAM H001-BAM H010 by means of synchrotron µ-XRF and LA-ICP-MS N2 - In this study the microscopic homogeneity of the newly developed plastic reference materials BAM H001-BAM H010 was investigated. The materials consist of an acrylonitryle-butadien-styrene terpolymer, doped with different amounts of the elements Br, Cd, Cr, Hg and Pb. For the quantitative determination of the degree of homogeneity, a procedure proposed by Kempenaers et al. (Fresenius J. Anal. Chem., 2001, 369, 733-737) was used. On every sample an extensive number of different points were analyzed and standard deviation for every element mentioned above was used to calculate a minimal sampling mass that is necessary to reach a certain level of uncertainty caused by inhomogeneity (mmin,5%). The experiments were taken out with synchrotron µ-XRF (SR µ-XRF) at BESSYII in Berlin and by laser ablation inductively coupled plasma mass spectroscopy (LA-ICP-MS). The calculated values for mmin,5% of both techniques showed comparable results for all elements. It could be shown that the materials are suitable for calibration of micro analytic techniques if at least 64 µg are used. KW - XRF KW - LA-ICP-MS KW - RoHS KW - CRM PY - 2010 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1039/b917008a SN - 0267-9477 SN - 1364-5544 VL - 25 SP - 40 EP - 43 PB - Royal Society of Chemistry CY - London AN - OPUS4-20938 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Dudek, Gabriele A1 - Görner, Wolf A1 - Gawlik, D. A1 - Alber, D. T1 - Use of neutron transmutation doping for the preparation of a new candidate reference material for zinc determination in metallic copper N2 - A new application of neutron transmutation doping is described. The method is useful to prepare graded zinc contents in highly pure copper materials. The research reactor BER II at the Hahn-Meitner-Institute, Berlin served as a neutron source. The zinc content produced in the samples was analyzed by determining the 65Zn-activity via gamma-spectrometry. Simultaneously irradiated flux monitors were used to determine the neutron flux density. Since cylindrical sample geometries are favorable for a reference material application in optical emission (OE) spectroscopy, the spatial distribution of the induced activity in a cylinder with a diameter of 8 mm and a length of 35 mm was investigated. PY - 2000 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1006723718395 SN - 0236-5731 SN - 1588-2780 SN - 1417-2097 N1 - Geburtsname von Dudek, Gabriele: Wermann, G. - Birth name of Dudek, Gabriele: Wermann, G. VL - 245 IS - 1 SP - 87 EP - 90 PB - Elsevier Sequoia CY - Lausanne AN - OPUS4-11230 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER -