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estion Asked 10th Oct, 2014
Abbas Rahdar
University of Zabol
anyone help with SEM image detail interpretation?
anyone help with SEM image detail interpretation, for example:

t is the meaning of WD ?

t is the meaning of Det:Sec ?

t is the meaning of Det:in Beam?

t is the meaning of HV:13.0 kv?

anning Electron Microscopy Solid State Physics Optical Physics Materials Science

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Björn Hoffmann 10th Oct, 2014

RoodMicrotec GmbH

pe you are just looking at images that someone else took. Because without
wing all these terms you shouldn't operate an SEM! If you want to understand
basics of SEM, please google for some scripts/lectures or start with the
pedia article.

our questions:

means working distance and is the distance between your sample surface
the lower end of the pole piece where the electrons are coming from.

Sec will be the detector of secondary electrons. This is a detector for low
rgy electrons that were extracted out of the sample by the hitting primary
tron beam.

in beam means the detector is inside the collumn. It is just some special SE
ector that is not inside the chamber. Such detectors make it possible to work at
low WD.

HV is the accelerating voltage for the electrons. So your electrons have

eV energy.

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analysis for my sample (Nano composites)
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r David , How to interpret EDX Spectra? And
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as, %wt of different elements? Does this %w

tell us about the concentration of the
go of sorrow. Always forward. elements or what?
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