Geoscience 777 Class Information
Some revisions 2/10/2019
- Description of course-updated 1/21/2019
- Schedule of lectures, labs, etc-updated 2/10/2019
- Expanded listing of supplementary journal articles NOT UPDATED
- Class lectures - FTP of PP presentations-ONLY updated week by week-always check with instructor
- Class exercises-2019 ones in process of revision as of date at top of page (if taking G777, check if there is a current update)
- Class labs-2019 ones in process of revision as of date at top of page (if taking G777, check first if is a current update)
- 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)
- JEOL's An Introduction to SEM (pdf)
- What are those Greek letters anyway?
- Videos available for enrichment exercises
X-ray details and data
- Handbook of X-ray Data
- Mass Absorption Tables 14.3 (Ka), 14.4 (La), 14.5 (Ma) from Goldstein et al, 1992
- X-ray wavelength and energy Tables 14.6-7-8(Ka) plus 14.1-2, from Goldstein et al, 1992
- "Origin of characteristic X-rays", Appendix from S.J.B. Reed, Electron Microprobe Analysis, 2nd edition, Cambridge University Press 1993
- 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:
