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2009 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
X-ray Spectrometry
Authors : David B. Williams, C. Barry Carter
Published in: Transmission Electron Microscopy
Publisher: Springer US
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To make use of the X-rays generated when the beam strikes the specimen, we have to detect them and identify from which element they originated. This is accomplished by X-ray spectrometry, which is one way to transform the TEM into a far more powerful instrument, called an analytical electron microscope (AEM). Currently, the only commercial spectrometer that we use on theTEM is an X-ray energy-dispersive spectrometer (XEDS), which uses a Si semiconductor detector or sometimes a Ge detector. New detector technologies are emerging, which we’ll describe briefly. While some of these may render the Si detector obsolete, we’ll nevertheless emphasize this particular detector.