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BASIL CIS CV CVD DSSC ECALE EC-STM EDX, EDS, EDAX EIS EMF EQCM FAB MS FFG-NMR Biphasic Acid Scavenging Utilizing Ionic Liquids Copper-indium-selenide Cyclic Voltammetry Chemical Vapor Deposition Dye Sensitized Solar Cell Electrochemical Atomic Layer Epitaxy Electrochemical in situ scanning tunnelling microscopy Energy Dispersive X-ray analysis Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy Electromotive Force Electrochemical Quarz Crystal Microbalance Fast atom bombardment mass spectroscopy Fixed Field Gradient Nuclear Magnetic Resonance... 

Mic] X-ray diffraction, EDX, EDS, TEM observations Preparation of a(Fe,Cr)203 solid solutions by mechanical alloying... 

A scanning electron microscope can also be equipped with additional instmmentation for electron-excited x-ray analysis (9). In many systems, this is performed in the mode known as energy dispersive x-ray analysis (edx). Other common acronyms for this method are eds for energy dispersive spectroscopy or edax for energy dispersive analysis of x-rays. 

Local composition is very useful supplementary information that can be obtained in many of the transmission electron microscopes (TEM). The two main methods to measure local composition are electron energy loss spectrometry (EELS), which is a topic of a separate paper in this volume (Mayer 2004) and x-ray emission spectrometry, which is named EDS or EDX after the energy dispersive spectrometer, because this type of x-ray detection became ubiquitous in the TEM. Present paper introduces this latter method, which measures the X-rays produced by the fast electrons of the TEM, bombarding the sample, to determine the local composition. As an independent topic, information content and usage of the popular X-ray powder dififaction database is also introduced here. Combination of information from these two sources results in an efficient phase identification. Identification of known phases is contrasted to solving unknown stmctures, the latter being the topic of the largest fiaction of this school. 

Figure 5.18. (a) and (b) show convergent-beam ED (CBED) patterns in the [001] and [111] zone-axis orientation with the lattice constants confirming that the particles are pure Pd. (c) EDX image from Pd -h support in (b). The Cu line is due to fluorescence from the Cu support grid for the sample. 

HRTEM, in situ ETEM, ED and EDX are powerful methods to provide... 

X-ray microanalysis techniques— in particular, electron probe x-ray microanalysis (EPXMA or EPMA) and SEM coupled with energy dispersive spectrometers (EDS, EDX) are, by far, one of the surface analysis techniques most extensively used in the field of art and art conservation, and they have actually become routine methods of analyzing art and archaeological objects and monitoring conservation treatments [34, 61, 63]. 

It should be noted that EDS and WDS are often referred to as EDX and WDX, or XEDS and XWDS, respectively. 

In addition to its power of directly imaging atomic structures of crystals, H RTEM is often equipped with several other powerful devices for characterization of solids, such as electron diffraction (ED), EDX, electron energy loss spectroscopy (EELS), scanning transmission electron microscopy (STEM) and so on. In this chapter, only the most commonly used supporting techniques for HRTEM, ED and EDX, are discussed in detail. 

Iwai-Liao Y, Higashi Y, Guo L, Ogita Y, Nonaka T Fine structure study and energy dispersive spectroscopy (EDS) X-ray microprobe (EDX) analysis of organic elements in the human enamel. JTrace Microprob Tech 1997 15 673-682. 

The X-ray signal in STEM is usually collected by compact solid state detectors based on lithium-drifted silicon diodes. The X-ray photon is sorted by energy, henee the alternative names for X-ray fluorescence analysis Energy Dispersive X-ray Spectroseopy (EDS or EDX). The typical energy resolution for an X-ray photon is of on the order of 150 eV This is suffieient in most cases for resolving peaks of different elements, but is inadequate for deteeting... 

The characterization of materials using TEM can give information about their structure and morphology. Allied techniques from TEM, such as EDX, EELS, EFTEM, and electron diffraction (ED), can complement the information obtained for a specific material. Several reviews and compilations of the studies on TEM and related techniques... 

Fig. 22 TEM images of as synthesized MIL-101 and precious metal immobilized EDMIL-101. (a) as synthesized MIL-101, (b) Pd/ED-MIL-101, (c) Au/ED-MIL-101, (d) Pt/EDMIL-101, (e) Pd- impregnated MIL-101 and (f) Pd/APS-SBA-15. Insets are EDX profQes of impregnated precious metal nanoparticles [92]. Copyright Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH Co. KGaA. Reproduced with permission...

Energy dispersive x-ray spectroscopy (EDXS or EDS) A method for elemental analysis based on using a focussed electron beam (in an electron microscope) to cause the fluorescence of secondary x-rays from atoms in a specimen. 

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