U-Pb dating is the frequently employed age-determination method in igneous and metamorphic rock research. U-Pb data is unique due to the long-lived nature of its target minerals and the materials’ ...

Nanoparticles find their use in numerous everyday commercial products, including cosmetics, foods and pharmaceuticals. Their characterization at the nanometer scale requires very particular ...

The interaction volume of a characteristic X-Ray emission can be seen in Figure 1. Typical EDS analysis in an SEM is carried out at relatively high energy (greater than 10 kV), which results in a vast ...

Continued scaling of integrated circuits to smaller dimensions is still a viable way to increase compute power, achieve higher memory cell density, or reduce power consumption. These days, chip makers ...