Re: [Vo]:Nick Danger's Top 10 answers for symptom 7

2019-10-27 Thread Bob Higgins
Hi Bob, The polycapillary lenses are not very efficient; I.E. they lose source energy in the process of focusing. If you are starting with a high intensity x-ray source, you can get a substantial amount focused into a 10-100 micron spot of high intensity. This is used in micro-XRF where a spot i

RE: [Vo]:Nick Danger's Top 10 answers for symptom 7

2019-10-27 Thread bobcook39...@hotmail.com
Bob— One such spectrometer is summarized here: “Abstract Polycapillary X-ray optics (capillary X-ray lens) are now popular in X-ray fluorescence (XRF) analysis. Such an X-ray lens can collect X-rays emitted from an X-ray source in a large solid angle and form a very intense X-ray microbeam wh