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Questions, information, testimonials, etc. about our company, products, policies, support and general inquires

Feel free to talk about anything and everything EPMA in this board

Here we discuss what building and room design considerations are necessary for optimum instrument performance, including floor vibration, EMI, temperature control, etc.

Post notices of your surplus or excess EPMA equipment, parts, pumps, etc. here for sale or for free. Also post requests of specific EPMA parts or equipment including pumps, chillers, chips, cables, etc. if you are searching for parts.

A discussion area for questions, tips and suggestions for EPMA instrument cooling water, vacuum technology and UPS backup and/or utility power issues

A discussion area for questions, tips and suggestions for EPMA sample preparation

A discussion area reserved for EPMA standards including but not limited to procurement, synthesis, availability, accuracy, handling, preparation, etc.

Share and discuss theory and practice of Electron Probe Micro Analysis. Share you class slides, lectures notes and teaching techniques

A discussion area for Energy Dispersive Spectrometry (EDS)

Questions, suggestions, tips, tricks and discussion related to the *free* CalcZAF (ZAF and phi-rho-z matrix correction utility) and Standard (standard composition and Monte Carlo utility) software applications

Questions, suggestions, tips, tricks and discussion related to Probe for EPMA (acquisition, automation and analysis software for JEOL and Cameca EPMA instruments)

This board is for questions, suggestions and discussion of miscellaneous utilities provided with Probe for EPMA, including but not limited to the Stage, StartWin, Evaluate, Search, Drift, Coat, TestType, GunAlign, Monitor and Userwin applications. Also Golden Software's Grapher and Surfer presentation output applications.

Questions, suggestions, tips, tricks and discussion related to Probe Image (x-ray map acquisition and automation software for JEOL and Cameca EPMA instruments)

Questions, suggestions, tips, tricks and discussion related to CalcImage (software application to create fully quantitative x-ray maps using standard intensities from Probe for EPMA, and beam or stage x-ray maps from Probe Image)

Questions, suggestions, tips, tricks and discussion related to the Matrix COM Server

Questions, suggestions, tips, tricks and discussion related to the Remote COM Server

Questions, suggestions, tips, tricks and discussion related to NIST's DTSA II

Moderator: Nicholas Ritchie

This board is for discussion of the STRATAGem thin film modeling and calculation software, including but not limited to thin film acquisition methods, simulation of intensities, calculation of composition and thickness, and integration with Probe for EPMA for acquisition and geometry corrections.

This board is for discussions and questions regarding all versions of Casino and MC X-Ray, developed by Raynald Gauvin, Hendrix Demers and others.

Moderator: hdemers

This board is for discussion of the new PictureSnapApp software which is an easy to use and inexpensive alternative for sample navigation on SEM, TEM and other instruments with an XYZ stage, using images from any source.

This board is for questions, suggestions, tips, tricks and discussion related to the BadgerFilm thin film analysis program, including but not limited to thin film characterization, bulk quantification, phi-rho-z matrix correction, simulation of absolute X-ray intensities and MAC determination.

Moderator: Aurelien Moy

Probelab ReImager facilitates easy batch exportation, customization and annotations of electron images and X-ray intensity maps. Supports images acquired using Thermo PathFinder, JEOL PC-SEM and Probe Software Probe for EPMA.

Moderator: Mia Kraft

JEOL specific issues, questions, suggestions and ideas

Cameca specific issues, questions, suggestions and ideas

Shimadzu specific issues, questions, suggestions and ideas

Thermo specific hardware and software issues and questions

Moderator: SteveSeddio

Bruker specific hardware and software issues and questions

Edax specific hardware and software issues and questions

Oxford specific hardware and software issues and questions