Correlation between charge contrast imaging and the distribution of some trace level impurities in gibbsite

Microscopy and Microanalysis

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 49-58

  Baroni, Travis C ^a   Griffin, Brendan J ^a   Browne, James R ^a   Lincoln, Frank J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Charge contrast imaging; Environmental scanning electron microscope; Gibbsite; Monte Carlo simulations; Wavelength dispersive spectrometry x ray mapping

Indexed keywords

EID: 0003089578     PISSN: 14319276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/s1431927600000088     Document Type: Article

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