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X-Ray Polarization: Bragg Diffraction and X-Ray Flurorescence

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 March 2019

John D. Zahrt*
Affiliation:
Chemistry Department, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Arizona 86011
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Recent, state of the art, x-ray spectrometers have made use of polarizing the source x-rays by scattering through 90° (1) . One then observes the analyte fluorescence in a direction perpendicular to the scattering plane in which the polarized x-rays are generated. The signal/noise ratio at the detector is much improved. Unfortunately there is a concomitant loss of intensity and analysis times increase. This adversely affects the minimum detection limits.

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VI. New XRF Instrumentation and Techniques
Copyright
Copyright © International Centre for Diffraction Data 1982

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