ArticleScientific reports2020
Quantitative material analysis using secondary electron energy spectromicroscopy.
Article in Scientific reports, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 6 papers.
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- Secondary Electron Hyperspectral Imaging of Carbons: New Insights and Good Practice Guide.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2025Article
- Characterization in respect to degradation of titanium-coated polypropylene surgical mesh explanted from humans.Journal of biomedical materials research. Part B, Applied biomaterials · 2023Article
- Revealing Localised Mechanochemistry of Biomaterials UsingMaterials (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- The Design of a Reflection Electron Energy Loss Spectrometer Attachment for Low Voltage Scanning Electron Microscopy.Materials (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Article
- Monitoring Carbon in Electron and Ion Beam Deposition within FIB-SEM.Materials (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Article
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Abstract
This paper demonstrates how secondary electron energy spectroscopy (SEES) performed inside a scanning electron microscope (SEM) can be used to map sample atomic number and acquire bulk valence band density of states (DOS) information at low primary beam voltages. The technique uses an electron energy analyser attachment to detect small changes in the shape of the scattered secondary electron (SE) spectrum and extract out fine structure features from it. Close agreement between experimental and theoretical bulk valance band DOS distributions was obtained for six different test samples, where the normalised root mean square deviation ranged from 2.7 to 6.7%. High accuracy levels of this kind do not appear to have been reported before. The results presented in this paper point towards SEES becoming a quantitative material analysis companion tool for low voltage scanning electron microscopy (LVSEM) and providing new applications for Scanning Auger Microscopy (SAM) instruments.
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