Establishing EDS Quantification with Standards as a Technique for Everyday Use with FSQ in APEX
Thursday, February 16, 2023
With the latest APEX software, EDAX enables extensive flexibility in quantifying energy dispersive spectroscopy (EDS) analyses. While the eZAF model considers matrix effects, PeBaZAF is useful for geometrically demanding materials that use the peak-to-background ratio instead.
Standardless normalized quantification is the most widely used approach due to its ease of use, fast and ready-to-use results, and it utilizes minimal requirements to perform this analysis. Since the equation system is underdefined, normalizing the element weight fractions is necessary.
During this webinar, we demonstrate how APEX introduces the so-called reference. It uses a short measurement of a single-element standard to determine a unique scaling value to eliminate the unknown physical parameters allowing non-normalized results.
When measuring a standard, the associated reference value is impinged to the spectrum and can thus account for differences with respect to the sample measurement. This significantly reduces the complexity of the quantification procedure and enables the creation and use of a database. An implemented algorithm is available for standard selection.
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