Geology 777 Lecture Notes -- PowerPoint Files

Version of February 5, 2012

What is 777?

Electron-specimen interactions

Optional-History, Overview

Electron-optical Column

Vacuum

Week 2

Image Acquisition

Cathodoluminescence

OPTIONAL:Image Processing

Week 3

EDS

Week 4

DTSA tutorial

Week 5

Variable Pressure ("Environmental") SEM work

Low Voltage SEM work

Week 6

SEM-EDS advanced topics

Week 7

WDS I: Spectrometers, crystals, detectors, PHA

Week 8

WDS II: More on spectrometers and spectra; background models, interferences, peak shifts

Week 9

Quant: ZAF Matrix Corrections

Week 10

Standards

Specimen preparation, coating

Week 11

Trace elements

Week 12

Light elements

Thin Films

Particles

Week 13

Difficult Materials (e.g. glass, carbonates, etc)

Week 14

Precision and Accuracy: Errors and Statistics

Week 15

Diffraction; EBSD

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Image Processing

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