The prediction of thick target electron bremsstrahlung spectra in the 0.25-50 keV energy range

Spectrochimica Acta - Part B Atomic Spectroscopy

Volumn 63, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 1-8

  Trincavelli, Jorge ^a,b   Castellano, Gustavo ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE CÓRDOBA   (Argentina)

^b Facultad de Ciencias Naturales e Instituto M Lillo   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Bremsstrahlung; EPMA; Standardless analysis

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRON ENERGY LEVELS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; X RAY ANALYSIS;

ATOMIC NUMBER; BREMSSTRAHLUNG SPECTRUM; STANDARDLESS ANALYSIS;

ELECTRON ABSORPTION;

EID: 38049051818     PISSN: 05848547     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sab.2007.11.009     Document Type: Review

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