A new quantitative thin‐film X‐ray analysis procedure termed the ζ‐factor method is
proposed. This new ζ‐factor method overcomes the two major limitations of the conventional …

This thoroughly revised and updated Fourth Edition of a time-honored text provides the
reader with a comprehensive introduction to the field of scanning electron microscopy …

Within the last 30 years, electron energy-loss spectroscopy (EELS) has become a standard
analytical technique used in the transmission electron microscope to extract chemical and …

Scanning electron microscopy (SEM) is traditionally the Cinderella of electron microscopy,
often seen as a playground for biologists and other disciplines remote from physics, and …

The aim of this book is to outline the physics of image formation, electron specimen
interactions and image interpretation in transmission electron mic roscopy. The book …

This book describes for the first time how Monte Carlo modeling methods can be applied to
electron microscopy and microanalysis. Computer programs for two basic types of Monte …

Recent developments in quantitative surface analysis by Auger (AES) and x-ray
photoelectron (XPS) spectroscopies are reviewed and problems relating to a more accurate …

The possibility of stimulated light emission was discussed by Einstein in 1917, eight years
before the quantum-mechanical description of energy levels of many-electron systems …

Chemical characterization of individual microparticles is of importance to a number of
applications including air pollution and occupational health research, pathology, geology …

The working out of an empirical expression for the cross section for production of atomic K-
shell vacancies by electrons is described. The basis is a critical analysis of the existing …