Cover of Electron Microprobe Analysis

Book 1997

Electron Microprobe Analysis

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Language
English
Published
1997
  • Electronic devices & materials
  • Microscopy
  • Science
  • Analytic Chemistry
  • Electron Microscopy
  • Chemistry - Analytic
  • Nuclear Physics
  • Physics

Characteristic X-rays were discovered by Barkla and Sadler (1909), as a result of studies of fluorescence spectra, and Kaye (1909) who excited pure element spectra by electron bombardment, using filters to obtain wavelength discrimination.