Micro-ERDA, micro-RBS and micro-PIXE techniques in the investigation of fish otoliths

Layer morphology analysis of sputter-eroded silicon gratings using Rutherford backscattering

“…This is a reasonable approximation for the sample orientation used in the experiments, see above. The code RBS-MAST [7] would allow to handle RBS spectra obtained from 3D-structured samples by taking correlation effects and multiple surface crossings into account, but it does not take the various energyspread contributions (except detector resolution) into account [ 14 ]. This disadvantage, together with the easier usability of SIMNRA and the absence of correlation effects in our experiments, was the main reason to use the simpler approach of a linear superposition of sub-spectra.…”

Biogenic and diagenetic indicators in archaeological and modern otoliths: Potential and limits of high definition synchrotron micro-XRF elemental mapping

“…While all three techniques can be used for mapping (Huszank et al, 2009;Hinz and Kohn, 2010;Shirai et al, 2014), on otoliths they are generally used for transect analyses. Maps of otoliths from wild specimens by PIXE (Limburg et al, 2003;Huszank et al, 2009) and Sr-tagged specimens raised in tanks by SEM-EDX (Morales-Nin et al, 2012a) have been previously shown.…”

“…While all three techniques can be used for mapping (Huszank et al, 2009;Hinz and Kohn, 2010;Shirai et al, 2014), on otoliths they are generally used for transect analyses. Maps of otoliths from wild specimens by PIXE (Limburg et al, 2003;Huszank et al, 2009) and Sr-tagged specimens raised in tanks by SEM-EDX (Morales-Nin et al, 2012a) have been previously shown. SR-μXRF scanning on a macro scale is a recent and actively developing technique in the study of both modern and ancient materials (Lintern et al, 2009;Bertrand et al, 2012;Anné et al, 2014).…”

“…LA-ICP-MS and EPMA are both destructive and/or damaging to the sample, the former as a fact of its operation, and the latter as a result of the operating conditions to measure concentrations of minor elements (Gunn et al, 1992). PIXE has also been observed to produce discolouration (Huszank et al, 2009). These techniques are typically employed with a resolution in the plane of the sample surface ("lateral resolution") on the order of 10 μm.…”

Study of Cl-containing urban aerosol particles by ion beam analytical methods

“…The measurement and data acquisition setup developed for the ion beam analysis of thin inhomogeneous samples [15][16][17] was used.…”