The development of a new windowless XEDS detector
Shigeto Isakozawa1, Kazutoshi Kaji, Keiji Tamura
1Hitachi High Technologies Corp., 882 Ichige, Hitachinaka, Ibaraki 312-8504, Japan. isakozawa-shigeto@naka.hitachi-hitec.com
Abstract:
A new windowless X-ray energy-dispersive spectroscopy (XEDS) detector has been developed for an analytical electron microscope (AEM). Different from the conventional XEDS detectors, the new detector does not contain an ultra-thin window (UTW) and a vacuum gate valve which are the major causes of low X-ray detection sensitivity and vibration problems for AEM imaging, respectively. The performance of the newly designed detector was examined at an AEM column vacuum level of 10⁻⁵ Pa. The X-ray detectability was improved considerably; in particular, the sensitivity for detecting nitrogen characteristic X-ray signal was three times higher than that of the conventional UTW detectors.
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