X-Ray Spectrometry
Recent Technological Advances
edited by Kouichi Tsuji

Each section covers the most advanced and high-tech aspects of the chemical analysis techniques based on x-rays.

By its nature, such a book cannot cover the fundamental, well-known and more routine aspects of the technique; forX-Ray Spectrometry is made to several existing handbooks and textbooks.

Each chapter is prepared by internationally recognized scientists, all of whom are eminent specialists in each of the sub-fields.

X-Ray Spectrometry will assist all analytical chemists and other users of x-ray spectrometry to fully exploit the capabilities of this set of powerful analytical tools and to further expand applications in such fields as:

• material and environmental sciences
• medicine
• toxicology
• forensics
• archaeometry
• many others

Contents

• Considering the Role of X-ray Spectrometry in Chemical Analysis and Outlining the Volume

1. X-Ray Sources

• Micro X-ray Sources.
• New Synchrotron Radiation Sources.
• Laser-driven X-ray Sources

2. X-Ray Optics

• Multilayers for Soft and Hard X-rays.
• Single Capillaries X-ray Optics.
• Polycapillary X-ray Optics.
• Parabolic Compound Refractive X-ray Lenses

3. X-Ray Detectors

• Semiconductor Detectors for (Imaging) X-ray Spectroscopy.
• Gas Proportional Scintillation Counters for X-ray Spectrometry.
• Superconducting Tunnel Junctions.
• Cryogenic Microcalorimeters.
• Position Sensitive Semiconductor Strip Detectors

4. Special Configurations

• Grazing-incidence X-ray Spectrometry.
• Grazing-exit X-ray Spectrometry.
• Portable Equipment for X-ray Fluorescence Analysis.
• Synchrotron Radiation for Microscopic X-ray Fluorescence Analysis.
• High-energy X-ray Fluorescence.
• Low-energy Electron Probe Microanalysis and Scanning Electron Microscopy.
• Energy Dispersive X-ray Microanalysis in Scanning and Conventional Transmission Electron Microscopy.
• X-Ray Absorption Techniques

5. New Computerisation Methods

• Monte Carlo Simulation for X-ray Fluorescence Spectroscopy.
• Spectrum Evaluation

6. New Applications

• X-Ray Fluorescence Analysis in Medical Sciences.
• Total Reflection X-ray Fluorescence for Semiconductors and Thin Films.
• X-Ray Spectrometry in Archaeometry.
• X-Ray Spectrometry in Forensic Research.
• Speciation and Surface Analysis of Single Particles Using Electron-excited X-ray Emission Spectrometry

Index

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