Geology 777 Lecture Notes -- PowerPoint Files

Version of Feb 4, 2013

What is 777?

Electron-specimen interactions

Electron-optical Column

Vacuum

Optional-History culminating in 'invention' of SEM and EPMA

Week 2

Image Acquisition

Cathodoluminescence

OPTIONAL:Image Processing

Week 3

EDS

Week 4

Variable Pressure ("Environmental") SEM work

Low Voltage SEM work

Week 5

SEM-EDS advanced topics

Week 6

WDS I: Spectrometers, crystals, detectors, PHA

Week 7

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

Week 8

Quant: ZAF Matrix Corrections

Week 9

Standards

Specimen preparation, coating

...Spring Break Week Off.....
Week 10

Trace elements

Week 11

Light elements

Thin Films

Particles

Week 12

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

Week 13

Precision and Accuracy: Errors and Statistics

Week 14

XRF, Synchrotron

Week 15

Diffraction; EBSD

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