TY - CONF A1 - Procop, Mathias T1 - Laborpraxis mit dem IMOXS T2 - 1. EDAX Partikelanalyse und iMOXS Anwendertreffen CY - Wiesbaden, Germany DA - 2007-11-29 PY - 2007 AN - OPUS4-16169 LA - deu AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Procop, Mathias T1 - Röntgenfluoreszenz am Rasterelektronenmikroskop - Vor- und Nachteile gegenüber der Elektronenstrahlmikroanalyse T2 - Kolloquium "Neue Analysenmethoden am Rasterelektronenmikroskop", BAM CY - Berlin, Germany DA - 2004-03-04 PY - 2004 AN - OPUS4-6424 LA - deu AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Procop, Mathias T1 - Röntgenfluoreszenz am Rasterelektronenmikroskop - Vor- und Nachteile gegenüber der Elektronenstrahlmikroanalyse T2 - Kolloquium "Neue Analysenmethoden am Rasterelektronenmikroskop", BAM CY - Berlin, Germany DA - 2004-03-25 PY - 2004 AN - OPUS4-6425 LA - deu AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Procop, Mathias T1 - Röntgenmikrofluoreszenzanalyse im REM mit dem Thermo NSS300 und der Röntgenquelle iMOXS T2 - Anwendertreffen Mikroanalyse CY - Berlin, Germany DA - 2006-10-17 PY - 2006 AN - OPUS4-13191 LA - deu AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Procop, Mathias A1 - Hodoroaba, Vasile-Dan T1 - A Test Material and a quick Procedure for the Performance Check of the X-Ray Spectrometers attached to the SEM T2 - Microscopy & Microanalysis CY - Richmond, VA, USA DA - 2009-07-26 PY - 2009 AN - OPUS4-19443 LA - deu AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Procop, Mathias A1 - Hodoroaba, Vasile-Dan A1 - Rackwitz, Vanessa T1 - A microfocus X-ray source for improved EDS and XRF analysis in the SEM N2 - A microfocus X-ray source mounted on the analysis chamber of an SEM was used to excite X-ray fluorescence spectra and to detect chemical elements with concentrations below the detection limit of the electron-excited X-ray spectra conventionally measured with SEM/EDS. An aluminium alloy and a hard material ceramics were analysed as representative examples. It is demonstrated that the combination of the three analytical methods: (1) SEM imaging for surface morphology characterisation; (2) electron-excited X-ray spectroscopy with its high spatial resolution for element analysis of inclusions or precipitates; and (3) X-ray fluorescence for the detection of elements with concentrations below 0.1 mass% considerably improves the performance of SEM/EDX analyses. KW - Scanning electron microscopy KW - Microanalysis KW - Energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy KW - X-ray fluorescence KW - Micro-XRF KW - Materials science PY - 2011 SN - 2043-0655 VL - 25 IS - 4 SP - 11 EP - 13 PB - Wiley CY - Chichester AN - OPUS4-23764 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Hodoroaba, Vasile-Dan A1 - Procop, Mathias T1 - Check of Energy-Dispersive X-ray Spectrometers (EDS) Performance with the BAM Test Material EDSTM001/2 and BAM Software EDS Spectrometer Test N2 - The test material EDS-TM001 together with an accompanying software package, “EDX spectrometer check”, have been made available in 2009 by BAM to be employed by EDS (energy-dispersive X-ray spectrometer) users to check the performance of an EDS attached to the SEM. Particularly for test laboratories operating under accreditation schemes like ISO/IEC 17025, a periodical control of the critical instrumental parameters in end-user laboratories is required. With EDS-TM001 or EDS-TM002 (second generation) test material, this periodical check is simplified to the acquisition of only one 10 kV spectrum. The software “EDX spectrometer check” is destined to evaluate automatically this spectrum and determine the performance of the EDS in terms of energy resolution and calibration, as well as possible alteration of low-energy Efficiency due to detector contamination. Energy resolution can be compared with the specified values according to the international ISO standard ISO 15632:2012. EDS-TM is a synthetic material consisting of a 6 μm thick layer of C, Al, Mn, Cu and Zr deposited on a steel (in case of EDS-TM001) or silicon (in case of EDS-TM002) substrate. The chemical composition of EDS-TM was chosen such as to give nearly equal intensities of the low energy lines in a 10 kV spectrum, thus, making it very sensitive against spectrometer efficiency changes. Meanwhile, about 150 laboratories use the EDS-TM001 or EDS-TM002 test material for the periodical check of their EDS. A detailed description of the test material and software together with examples of application was published recently. New results and gained experiences will be presented as well. When the FWHM of the X-ray lines in the EDS-TM spectrum are determined, the spectrum background must be subtracted accurately. The applied physical background subtraction procedure is robust and takes into account the transmission of the detector window. While the previous version considers only Moxtek AP windows, the new version includes selection of silicon Nitride window and the case of windowless detector. Moreover, the new version allows importing of spectra in Bruker spx-format and EMSA/MSA files from EDAX TEAM software. Windowless detectors have been also tested demonstrating long-term stability after repeated heating and cooling cycles. In this case, the appropriate Background subtraction is decisive for accurate detector characterization. Detailed results will be presented. T2 - EMAS 2019 - 16th European Workshop on MODERN DEVELOPMENTS AND APPLICATIONS IN MICROBEAM ANALYSIS CY - Trondheim, Norway DA - 19.05.2019 KW - EDS KW - Test material KW - Software KW - Spectrometer check KW - X-ray spectroscopy PY - 2019 AN - OPUS4-48103 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Procop, Mathias A1 - Hodoroaba, Vasile-Dan T1 - Uncertainties in secondary fluorescence correction in EPMA N2 - Secondary fluorescence is an inevitable effect that has to be taken into account in any algorithm for quantitative electron probe microanalysis (EPMA) as an additional correction. Moreover, secondary fluorescence worsens spatial resolution of EPMA. Secondary fluorescence is excited both by characteristic radiation and by the X-ray continuum. In most cases the correction is small. There are, however, cases, e.g. the determination of low heavy metal concentration in a light matrix, where the contribution of secondary fluorescence exceeds 10% of the measured X-ray line intensity. For secondary fluorescence correction the measured X-ray line intensity has to be divided by the correction factor (1+I_flchar/I_p +I_flcont/I_p )≈(1+I_flchar/I_p )(1+I_flcont/I_p ) in order to get those intensity I_p, which is excited only by the primary electrons. I_flchar and I_flcont mean the calculated characteristic and continuums fluorescence intensities. In order to get the intensity of fluorescence radiation, the absorption of the exciting radiation in the specimen, the photoionization probability and the self-absorption of the emitted line must be calculated. The critical quantity is the X-ray yield of the exciting atoms in case of fluorescence by characteristic radiation and the bremsstrahlung yield of the specimen in case of continuum fluorescence. In the former case it is reasonable to apply the same physical model to calculate I_flchar and I_p. KW - EPMA KW - Secondary fluorescence correction KW - Uncertainties KW - Microanalysis PY - 2019 UR - https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/microscopy-and-microanalysis/article/uncertainties-in-secondary-fluorescence-correction-in-epma/AA92E973D350A74C574067AAFB2D9044 DO - https://doi.org/10.1017/S1431927619012534 SN - 1431-9276 SN - 1435-8115 VL - 25 IS - Suppl. 2 SP - 2360 EP - 2361 PB - Cambridge University Press AN - OPUS4-48863 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Hodoroaba, Vasile-Dan A1 - Terborg, R. A1 - Procop, Mathias T1 - Check of the performance of EDS systems attached to the SEM with the test material EDS-TM001/2 and evaluation software package EDS spectrometer test - Application, experiences and updates N2 - The test material EDS-TM001 together with an accompanying software package, “EDX spectrometer check”, have been made available in 2009 by BAM to be employed by EDS (energy dispersive spectrometer) users to check the performance of an EDS attached to the SEM. Particularly for test laboratories operating under accreditation schemes like ISO/IEC 17025, a periodical control of the critical instrumental parameters in end-user laboratories is required. With EDS-TM001 or EDS-TM002 (second generation) test material, this periodical check is simplified to the acquisition of only one 10 kV spectrum. The software “EDX spectrometer check” is destined to evaluate automatically this spectrum and determine the performance of the EDS in terms of energy resolution and calibration as well as possible alteration of low-energy efficiency due to detector contamination. Energy resolution can be compared with the specified values according to the international ISO standard ISO 15632:2012. EDS-TM is a synthetic material consisting of a thick layer of C, Al, Mn, Cu and Zr in a well-defined composition, deposited on a steel (in case of EDS-TM001) or silicon (in case of EDS-TM002) substrate. Meanwhile, more than one hundred laboratories use the EDS-TM001 or EDS-TM002 test material for the periodical check of their EDS. A detailed description of the test material and software together with examples of application was published recently. New results and gained experiences will be presented as well. When the FWHM of lines appearing in the EDS-TM spectrum are determined, the spectrum background must be subtracted accurately. The applied physical background subtraction procedure is robust and takes into account the transmission of the detector window. While the previous version considers only Moxtek AP windows, the new version includes selection of silicon nitride window and the case of windowless detector. Moreover, the new version allows importing of spectra in Bruker spx format and EMSA/MSA files from EDAX TEAM software. KW - EDS KW - Performance check KW - SEM KW - Test material KW - X-ray spectrometer PY - 2018 UR - https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/microscopy-and-microanalysis/article/check-of-the-performance-of-eds-systems-attached-to-the-sem-with-the-test-material-edstm0012-and-evaluation-software-package-eds-spectrometer-test-application-experiences-and-updates/3D01FDC765C3ECD734CB8DEC7081DAE2 DO - https://doi.org/10.1017/S1431927618004142 SN - 1431-9276 SN - 1435-8115 VL - 24 IS - S1 (August) SP - 730 EP - 731 PB - Cambridge University Press CY - New York, NY, U.S.A. AN - OPUS4-46006 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - GEN A1 - Berger, Achim A1 - Görner, Wolf A1 - Merchel, Silke A1 - Procop, Mathias A1 - Radtke, Martin A1 - Riesemeier, Heinrich T1 - SY-XRF in certification of a reference material at the BAMline PY - 2003 UR - http://www.helmholtz-berlin.de/media/media/oea/web/pr_webseite/druckschriften/berichte/bessy/annualreport2002.pdf#page=311 SN - 0179-4159 SP - 311 EP - 312 PB - Berliner Elektronenspeicherring-Gesellschaft für Synchrotronstrahlung CY - Berlin AN - OPUS4-2492 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - GEN A1 - Berger, Achim A1 - Ecker, Klaus A1 - Görner, Wolf A1 - Merchel, Silke A1 - Procop, Mathias A1 - Radtke, Martin A1 - Riesemeier, Heinrich T1 - X-ray fluorescence analysis at the BAMline PY - 2002 UR - http://www.helmholtz-berlin.de/media/media/oea/web/pr_webseite/druckschriften/berichte/bessy/annualreport2001.pdf#page=253 SN - 0179-4159 SP - 253 EP - 254 PB - Berliner Elektronenspeicherring-Gesellschaft für Synchrotronstrahlung CY - Berlin AN - OPUS4-1322 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - GEN A1 - Radtke, Martin A1 - Berger, Achim A1 - Ecker, Klaus A1 - Merchel, Silke A1 - Procop, Mathias A1 - Riesemeier, Heinrich A1 - Görner, Wolf A1 - Reiche, I. T1 - Synchrotron induced X-ray fluorescence for trace element analysis T2 - Hamburg Workshop CY - Hamburg, Germany DA - 2002-09-16 PY - 2002 SN - 3-924330-53-0 SP - 1(?) PB - Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker AN - OPUS4-1525 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER -