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Total Electron Yield (TEY) A New Approach for Quantitative X-ray Analysis

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 March 2019

Horst Ebel
Affiliation:
Technische Universitat Wien Institut für Angewandte und Technische Physik A 1040 Vienna (Austria), Wiedner Hauptstraβe 8-10
Robert Svagera
Affiliation:
Technische Universitat Wien Institut für Angewandte und Technische Physik A 1040 Vienna (Austria), Wiedner Hauptstraβe 8-10
Maria F. Ebel
Affiliation:
Technische Universitat Wien Institut für Angewandte und Technische Physik A 1040 Vienna (Austria), Wiedner Hauptstraβe 8-10
Norbert Zagler
Affiliation:
Technische Universitat Wien Institut für Angewandte und Technische Physik A 1040 Vienna (Austria), Wiedner Hauptstraβe 8-10
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An irradiation of solid samples with x-rays causes an electron emission from the sample surface, owing to photoabsorption. These electrons can be detected under vacuum conditions and are photo, Auger and secondary electrons. Due to inelastic collisions most of these electrons have lost some of their original kinetic energy along the path from the atom of origin to the surface. With nondispersive electron detection the total electron yield (TEY) is observed.

For measurements performed with a tunable x-ray monochromator information on the qualitative composition can be obtained by the following procedure. The photon energy has to be timed from below to above of one of the absorption edges of a given element. In case of its presence in the specimen an increase of the TEY-signal can be observed.

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IV. New Developments in X-Ray Sources, Instrumentation and Techniques
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Copyright © International Centre for Diffraction Data 1994

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