Scanning vibrating electrode (SVE), particle induced X-ray emission spectroscopy (PIXE)
and standard electrochemical measurements were used to study the establishment of stable …

Polished specimens of AA2024-T3 alloy were immersed for up to 120min in 0.1 M NaCl. The
development of corrosion was monitored using scanning electron microscopy with energy …

The beam optics in a nuclear microprobe is considered on the basis of quality criteria for
focusing systems. In this consideration, empirical criteria with dominant chromatic or intrinsic …

The 40year history of nuclear microscopy has seen sustained progress in the development
of technology needed to improve PIXE analysis and trace element imaging performance …

Electron and proton microprobes, along with electron backscatter diffraction (EBSD) analysis
were used to study the microstructure of the contemporary Al–Cu–Li alloy AA2099-T8. In …

Abstract The Pelletron at the University of Melbourne is a DC particle accelerator that has
been used for materials analysis and ion implantation since its installation in the 1970s …

The paper discusses the effect of nonuniform distribution of the ion beam phase density on
the nuclear microprobe resolution. The deconvolution of the beam brightness distribution …

To study the radiation effect of cosmic heavy ions of low fluxes in electronics and living
samples, a focusing heavy ion microbeam facility, for ions with energies of several MeV/u up …

For many years the only ray-tracing software available with sufficient precision for the design
of quadrupole microbeam focusing systems has been OXRAY and its successor TRAX …

A state-of-the-art high energy heavy ion microbeam irradiation system is constructed at the
Institute of Modern Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. This microbeam system …