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Novel low-energyX-ray fluorescence (LEXRF) system based on a multiple Si drift detector (SDD) configuration has been developed and implemented in the European TwinMic X-ray microspectroscopy station operating at the Italian synchrotron radiation facility ELETTRA. The setup, hosting up to eight large-area SDDs with specially adapted readout electronics, has demonstrated excellent performance for element alanalysis in the 400–2200 eV photon energy range, which covers the K and L edges of light elements, starting from B. The great advantage is the simultaneous acquisition of LEXRF, absorption and phase contrast maps,providing complementary information on elemental composition and morphology of specimen at submicrometer length scales.

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Simultaneous Soft X-ray Transmission and Emission Microscopy;
A. Gianoncelli, B. Kaulich, M. Kiskinova, R. Alberti, T. Klatka, A. Longoni, A. de Marco, A. Marcello;
Nucl. Instr. and Meth. A 608 (1), 195-198.
doi:10.1016/j.nima.2009.06.035