A 3 day course to introduce the fundamental physical and practical methods of EPMA. The course is delivered as a series of on-instrument demonstrations and short lectures. Tutors are drawn from UK-EPMA's own team of experts from around the country. The course will cover:

Overview of WDS EPMA – Electron beam – solid interaction. Monte Carlo modeling; Characteristics of X-ray detectors in the EPMA – (EDS, WDS); Analysis of Trace elements; Light element analysis.

Practical demonstrations on both JEOL 8530F and Cameca SX100 EPMA through a series of case studies will introduce students to instrument set-up and spectrometer configuration, qualitative ED/ WD scans. Overlap corrections on WDS, Primary Standard calibration, WD X-ray mapping and quantitative analysis set-up and automation. Review sessions will consider statistical treatment of data and post-processing of X-ray maps. Advanced topics such as low voltage analysis are introduced.

Strictly limited to 24 participants. Cost is £XXX covers lunch, coffee breaks, and a course dinner at a local Restaurant.

The course is aimed at students and researchers with either no or limited experience of EPMA although some familiarity with basic SEM techniques would be beneficial.