Concentration depth distribution of grain boundary segregation measured by wavelength dispersive X-ray spectroscopy

Ultramicroscopy

Volumn 159, Issue , 2015, Pages 432-437

  Yang, Wuqiang ^a   Xu, Min ^a   Bai, Huanhuan ^a   Meng, Ye ^a   Wang, Litao ^b   Shi, Lifa ^b   Pei, Yinghao ^b   Zhang, Jian ^b   Zheng, Lei ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY BEIJING   (China)

^b Technology Center of Ma'anshan Iron and Steel Co Ltd   (China)

Author keywords

Concentration depth distribution; Gaussian distribution; Grain boundary segregation; Wavelength dispersive X ray spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

DISPERSION (WAVES); GAUSSIAN DISTRIBUTION; GRAIN BOUNDARIES; MONOLAYERS; MULTILAYERS; SILICON STEEL; TIN; WAVELENGTH DISPERSIVE SPECTROSCOPY; X RAY SPECTROSCOPY;

CONCENTRATION-DEPTH DISTRIBUTION; CORRECTION FACTORS; DERIVED FORMULAE; EFFECTIVE APPROACHES; GRAIN BOUNDARY SEGREGATION; GRAIN-BOUNDARY CONCENTRATION; MONOLAYER SEGREGATION; WAVELENGTH DISPERSIVE X-RAY SPECTROSCOPIES;

SEGREGATION (METALLOGRAPHY);

SILICON;

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CHEMICAL PARAMETERS; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; GRAIN BOUNDARY SEGREGATION; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PROCESS OPTIMIZATION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; ROENTGEN SPECTROSCOPY; WAVELENGTH DISPERSIVE X RAY SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 84949533156     PISSN: 03043991     EISSN: 18792723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ultramic.2015.03.004     Document Type: Article

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