Metal location and thickness in a multilayered sheet by measuring Kα/Kβ, Lα/Lβ and Lα/Lγ X-ray ratios

Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section B: Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms

Volumn 267, Issue 17, 2009, Pages 2890-2896

  Cesareo, Roberto ^a   Rizzutto, Marcia A ^b   Brunetti, Antonio ^a   Rao, Donepudi V ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SASSARI   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^c Sir CRR Autonomous College   (India)

Author keywords

Energy dispersive X ray fluorescence; Gilded alloys; K K ; L L and L L ratios; Pigment layers; Silvered alloys

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEOMETRY; ENERGY-DISPERSIVE X-RAY FLUORESCENCE; ENERGY-DISPERSIVE X-RAY FLUORESCENCE ANALYSIS; GILDED ALLOYS; MULTI-LAYERED; MULTILAYERED MATERIALS; PRE-COLUMBIAN; SILVERED ALLOYS;

FLUORESCENCE; SHEET METAL; X RAYS;

ALLOYS;

EID: 68949149113     PISSN: 0168583X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nimb.2009.06.119     Document Type: Article

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