Geology 777 Class Information
Limited - Updated: August 27, 2008
- Description of course
- Schedule of lectures, labs, etc
- Expanded listing of supplementary journal articles
- Class lectures - FTP of PP presentations
- Class exercises-old, do not use without first confirmation
- Class labs-not implemented yet
- Some articles for class discussion (pdf)
- Software for 777
- List of references from 2003
- From the crusty old archives: historical development of EPMA with some choice picks
- Mark Lund's articles on X-ray detectors from Microscopy Today
- JEOL's A Guide to Scanning Microscope Observations (pdf)
- What are those Greek letters anyway?
- Videos available for enrichment exercises
X-ray data
- The original compendium by Bearden, Reviews of Physics 1967 (Vol 39, No 1), reprinted by NBS as a booklet -- 7 mb pdf file
- Table courtesy of John Donovan, University of Oregon Probe Lab
- NIST database: click on X-ray Database at bottom of this page
- Good free mini-book available from the folks at LBL
- Journal: Microscopy and Microanalysis
particularly look at 2001 Volume 7 Issue 2, for 14 excellent articles from the 1999 Topical Symposium of the Microbeam Analysis Society,
on 50 years of EPMA, honoring Raimond Castaing
- Articles from the Nov-Dec 2002 issue of the Journal of Research of NISTfrom the NIST-MAS April 2002 Workshop on Understanding the Accuracy Barrier of Quantitative Electron Beam X-ray Microanalysis and the Role of Standards
- Powerpoint slides of talks at the NIST-MAS April 2002 Workshop on
Understanding the Accuracy Barrier of Quantitative Electron Beam X-ray Microanalysis and the Role of Standards(List of talks)
- Link to the NIST MicroAnalysis Group
Links to software useful for EPMA: