The electron microprobe provides a complete micrometer-scale quantitative chemical analysis of inorganic solids. The method is nondestructive and utilizes characteristic X-rays excited by an …

EPMA is a multi-faceted technique for determining the concentration and the distribution of elements in solid specimens, from major elements to trace constituents.

In 1944, James Hillier (1915-2007) and Baker at the Radio Corporation of America (RCA) Labs at Princeton, New Jersey, built an electron microprobe, combining an electron microscope and …

Electron probe microanalysis and microscopy is a widely used modern analytical technique primarily for quan-tifying chemical compositions of solid materials and for mapping or imaging …

The beginning of the solution to Sauveur’s dream came in 1949 with the first results from the electron probe x-ray microanalyzer (EPMA) by Raymond Castaing, a student of A. Guinier at …

Electron probe microanalysis (EPMA) is a nondestructive analytical technique widely used for determining the local composition of solid samples [1, 2, 3].

The X-rays have energies characteristic of the element from which they originate, leading to elemental identification. The electron microprobe, also known as electron probe microanalysis …