X-ray fluorescence microscopy

initialism: XRM
https://doi.org/10.1351/goldbook.08772
Measurement method of X-ray fluorescence to obtain quantitative and spatial information about elements in a sample.
Notes:
  1. X-ray beam energies of 5 keV excite core level vacancies and promote hard X-ray emission, for which the fluorescence yield is high.
  2. Spatial resolution is typically in the range from 200 nm to 10 μm, but, using specialised probes at synchrotron facilities, the lower limit can be decreased to tens of nanometers.
Source:
PAC, 2021, 93, 69. (Vocabulary of radioanalytical methods (IUPAC Recommendations 2020)) on page 107 [Terms] [Paper]
Citation: 'X-ray fluorescence microscopy' in IUPAC Compendium of Chemical Terminology, 5th ed. International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry; 2025. Online version 5.0.0, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1351/goldbook.08772 RIS BibTex EndNote
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