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X-ray Intensities from Copper-Target Diffraction Tubes

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 March 2019

M. A. Short
M. A. Short*
Affiliation:
Ford Motor Company, Engineering&Research Staff Dearborn, Michigan. 48121
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Abstract

The relative intensities of the Kα characteristic radiation obtained from copper-target X-ray diffraction tubes have been calculated for a range of tube accelerating voltages and take-off angles. The calculations employ an over-voltage function, and absorption and atomic number corrections similar to those used in electron microprobe analysis. They apply only to constant potential X-ray generators. Measurements of actual intensities obtained on a Picker diffractometer using a sodium chloride monochromator gave relative intensities in close agreement with those calculated. The calculations and measurements show that there is an optimum tube voltage, with respect to intensity, for each take-off angle. This voltage increases with increasing take-off angle. The application of these results to the consideration of the relative intensities obtainable from broad, standard and fine focus copper-target X-ray diffraction tubes is discussed.

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X-Ray Instrumentation
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Advances in X-Ray Analysis , Volume 20: Twenty-Fifth Annual Conference on Applications of X-ray Analysis, August 4-6, 1976 , 1976, pp. 565 - 574
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Copyright © International Centre for Diffraction Data 1976

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