Monolithic polycapillary focusing optics and their applications in microbeam x‐ray fluorescence

Autor:	W. M. Gibson, Ning Gao, Qi-Fan Xiao, I. Yu. Ponomarev, D. A. Carpenter
Rok vydání:	1996
Předmět:	Full width at half maximum Photon Optics Materials science Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous) business.industry Point source Solid angle X-ray fluorescence Focal Spot Size Microbeam business Fluorescence
Zdroj:	Applied Physics Letters. 69:1529-1531
ISSN:	1077-3118 0003-6951
DOI:	10.1063/1.117994
Popis:	Monolithic polycapillary focusing optics can collect a large solid angle of x rays from a point source and form intense focused beams for microbeam x‐ray fluorescence (MXRF) analysis. Such an optic was tested and characterized in a MXRF setup. For the Cu Kα line, the measured focal spot size of the optic was 43 μm full width at half‐maximum (FWHM). With the 16 W microfocusing x‐ray source (50 μm×10 μm), the average Cu Kα intensities over the focal spot was measured to be 8.9×104 photons/s/μm2. When compared to a straight single channel capillary optic with approximately the same output beam size, an intensity gain of 44 was obtained. The optic was applied to the MXRF setup to analyze trace elements in various samples and a minimum detection limit (MDL) of about 2 pg was achieved for the transition elements (V, Cr, Mn, and Fe). The optic was also used to map the distributions of trace elements in various samples.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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