To continue with the previous post here is the sort of output one can obtain from the actual "Report" button in the Analyze! window for a typical silicate glass run:
Probe for EPMA Xtreme Edition for Electron Probe Micro Analysis
Database File: C:\UserData\Donovan\Withers\Withers_01-31-2008.MDB
Database File Type: PROBE
DataFile Version Number: 7.4.2
Program Version Number: 11.9.0
Database File User Name: John Donovan
Database File Description: NSL-N6
Database Created: 1/31/2008 10:24:36 AM
Last Updated: 1/31/2008 10:24:36 AM
Last Modified: 5/13/2017 1:33:39 PM
Current Date and Time: 5/21/2017 2:18:19 PM
Nominal Beam: 30 (nA)
Faraday/Absorbed Averages: 1
Correction Method and Mass Absorption Coefficient File:
ZAF or Phi-Rho-Z Calculations
LINEMU Henke (LBL, 1985) < 10KeV / CITZMU > 10KeV
Current ZAF or Phi-Rho-Z Selection:
Armstrong/Love Scott (default)
Correction Selections:
Phi(pz) Absorption of Armstrong/Packwood-Brown 1981 MAS
Stopping Power of Love-Scott
Backscatter Coefficient of Love-Scott
Backscatter of Love-Scott
Mean Ionization of Berger-Seltzer
Phi(pz) Equation of Love-Scott
Reed/JTA w/ M-Line Correction and JTA Intensity Mod.
Fluorescence by Beta Lines Included
Un 12 Withers-NSL
TakeOff = 40.0 KiloVolt = 15.0 Beam Current = 10.0 Beam Size = 20
(Magnification (analytical) = 20000), Beam Mode = Analog Spot
(Magnification (default) = 600, Magnification (imaging) = 600)
Image Shift (X,Y): .00, .00
Compositional analyses were acquired on an electron microprobe (Cameca SX100 (TCP/IP Socket)) equipped with 5 tunable wavelength dispersive spectrometers.
Operating conditions were 40 degrees takeoff angle, and a beam energy of 15 keV.
The beam current was 10 nA, and the beam diameter was 20 microns.
Elements were acquired using analyzing crystals LLIF for Ti ka, Fe ka, Mn ka, Ca ka, PET for Cl ka, Ba la, K ka, TAP for Na ka, Mg ka, LTAP for F ka, Si ka, Al ka, TAP for Na ka, Mg ka, and PC1 for O ka.
The standards were MgO synthetic for Mg ka, O ka, TiO2 synthetic for Ti ka, MnO synthetic for Mn ka, NBS K-411 mineral glass for Si ka, Ca10(PO4)6Cl2 (halogen corrected) for Cl ka, Nepheline (partial anal.) for Na ka, Al ka, Diopside (Chesterman) for Ca ka, Orthoclase MAD-10 for K ka, Magnetite U.C. #3380 for Fe ka, and BaF2 (barium fluoride) for Ba la, F ka.
MgO synthetic
1. UCB # M3567, 99.8%, EPMA (UCB): Ca ~ 0.2%
2. C. M. Taylor, 99.98%, EPMA (UCB) Ca ~ 0.02%
SiO2 synthetic
Specimen from ESPI, 99.99%, EPMA (UCB): Al2O3 ~ 0.01%
Catalog #K4699M
Atomic Absorption (Chris Lewis):
Al=15 ppm +/- 5
Fe=6 ppm +/- 3
Mn=1.5 ppm +/- 0.3
Na=5 ppm +/- 3
Li= 2.3 ppm +/- 0.2
TiO2 synthetic
Specimen from Mimports, Lafayette, CA
Assumed stoichiometric
EPMA (UCB): Al2O3=0.02 (interference corrected)
Fluor-phlogopite (halogen corrected)
Grown by S. Wones, Univ of Tenn
(applied F=O equivalence)
Ca10(PO4)6Cl2 (halogen corrected)
Specimen from Alan Baumer, Univ of Nice, France
Hydrothermally grown
See Argiolas and Baumer, Can. Min., v. 16, pp 285-290, 1978
Nepheline (partial anal.)
Analysis by ISE Carmichael (Na, K)
Ca = 750 PPM (EPMA by JJD)
Diopside (Chesterman)
Twin Lakes, Fresno Co., CA
From Charles Chesterman (Ca Div. Mines)
Orthoclase MAD-10
Specimen from Chuck Taylor
Fe2O3=2.01% (EPMA by J. Donovan) (as FeO=1.88% + 0.13% O)
K2O=15.49%, Na2O=1.07% (Flame photometry by J. Hampel)
BaO=0.06%, Rb2O=0.03% (EPMA by J. Donovan)
Sr=12 ppm, Rb=600 ppm (Isotope dilution)
Magnetite U.C. #3380
Port Henry, NY
FeO=30.93% (ISE Carmichael)
Fe2O3=68.85%, FeO=30.92% (as FeO=92.73% + 6.90% O)
(Total FeO=92.73%, by EPMA, JJD)
MnO synthetic
Specimen from Michael Wittenauer (Purdue Univ.)
Starting mat'l 99.999%, SM # 317, 'skull melt' process
Mat. Res. Bull. 15, p 571, 1980
(possible intergrowths of Mn3O4 and small inclusions of Mn metal)
EPMA (UCB): SiO2=0.00, FeO=0.00, CaO=0.00, Al2O3=0
NiO synthetic
1. Specimen from Michael Wittenauer (Purdue Univ.)
Starting mat'l 99.999%, Boule WI, Arc Transfer
2. Specimen from G. Czemanske, USGS (Oct 12, 1984)
EPMA (UCB): FeO=0.05%
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All material assumed stoichiometric
NBS K-412 mineral glass
SRM 470, NIST
C.M. Taylor (Photometry?) FeO 2.77, Fe2O3 8.15
Total as FeO 10.10, Excess O 0.815
Na = 430 PPM (EPMA by JJD)
NBS K-411 mineral glass
SRM 470, NIST
C.M. Taylor (Photometry?) FeO 4.39, Fe2O3 11.23
Total as FeO 14.49, Excess O 1.12
BIR-1G Glass
USGS
see Meeker, et. al. "A Basalt Glass Standard for Multiple Microanalytical Techniques"
BaF2 (barium fluoride)
Single crystal, fluorescent
The counting time was 10 seconds for Cl ka, Ti ka, Mn ka, 20 seconds for K ka, Ba la, Ca ka, Si ka, Al ka, 40 seconds for F ka, Fe ka, 60 seconds for Na ka, Mg ka, and 120 seconds for O ka.
The intensity data was corrected for Time Dependent Intensity (TDI) loss (or gain) using a self calibrated correction for Na ka, K ka, Ti ka, Si ka, O ka.
The off peak counting time was 10 seconds for Cl ka, Mn ka, Ti ka, and 20 seconds for Ba la, F ka, K ka, O ka.
Off Peak correction method was Linear for Mn ka, Cl ka, Ba la, F ka, K ka, Low Only for Ti ka, and Exponential for O ka.
The MAN background intensity data was calibrated and continuum absorption corrected for Na ka, Fe ka, Ca ka, Si ka, Al ka, Mg ka.
See J.J. Donovan and T.N. Tingle, An Improved Mean Atomic Number Correction for Quantitative Microanalysis in Journal of Microscopy, v. 2, 1, p. 1-7, 1996
Donovan, Singer and Armstrong, A New EPMA Method for Fast Trace Element Analysis in Simple Matrices, American Mineralogist, v101, p1839-1853, (2016)
Unknown and standard intensities were corrected for deadtime. Standard intensities were corrected for standard drift over time.
Interference corrections were applied to Ba for interference by Ti, and to Ti for interference by Ba.
See J.J. Donovan, D.A. Snyder and M.L. Rivers, An Improved Interference Correction for Trace Element Analysis in Microbeam Analysis, 2: 23-28, 1993
Empirical Mass Absorption Coefficients were utilized to correct x-ray intensities for matrix corrections.
See Bastin, G.F. and Heijligers, H.J.M (1991) Quantitative electron probe microanalysis of ultra-light elements (boron - oxygen), in Electron Probe Quantitation, ed K.F.J. Heinrich and D.E. Newbury, Plenum Press, NY, 145-161
Also Bastin, G.F. and Heijligers, H.J.M. (1992) Present and future of light element analysis with electron beam instruments, Microbeam Analysis, 1, 61-73.
Current Mass Absorption Coefficients From:
LINEMU Henke (LBL, 1985) < 10KeV / CITZMU > 10KeV
Z-LINE X-RAY Z-ABSOR MAC
Na ka Na 5.6089e+02
Na ka K 3.8110e+03
Na ka Cl 2.5391e+03
Na ka Ba 7.6213e+03
Na ka F 5.1229e+03
Na ka Ti 5.2439e+03
Na ka Fe 8.1986e+03
Na ka Mn 7.2518e+03
Na ka Ca 4.3573e+03
Na ka Si 1.4049e+03
Na ka Al 1.0667e+03
Na ka Mg 8.1441e+02
Na ka O 4.1515e+03
Na ka H 5.9317e+00
K ka Na 3.7714e+02
K ka K 1.7109e+02
K ka Cl 1.1539e+03
K ka Ba 7.2049e+02
K ka F 2.1534e+02
K ka Ti 2.4971e+02
K ka Fe 4.1167e+02
K ka Mn 3.5594e+02
K ka Ca 1.9889e+02
K ka Si 7.4506e+02
K ka Al 5.9083e+02
K ka Mg 5.0887e+02
K ka O 1.6416e+02
K ka H 1.1806e-01
Cl ka Na 7.3634e+02
Cl ka K 3.2806e+02
Cl ka Cl 2.1561e+02
Cl ka Ba 1.2824e+03
Cl ka F 4.2282e+02
Cl ka Ti 4.7326e+02
Cl ka Fe 7.8172e+02
Cl ka Mn 6.7972e+02
Cl ka Ca 3.7594e+02
Cl ka Si 1.4010e+03
Cl ka Al 1.1255e+03
Cl ka Mg 9.8203e+02
Cl ka O 3.2567e+02
Cl ka H 2.6576e-01
Ba la Na 1.6022e+02
Ba la K 7.2502e+02
Ba la Cl 5.2953e+02
Ba la Ba 3.3617e+02
Ba la F 9.0427e+01
Ba la Ti 1.1151e+02
Ba la Fe 1.8314e+02
Ba la Mn 1.5795e+02
Ba la Ca 8.3453e+02
Ba la Si 3.2826e+02
Ba la Al 2.5758e+02
Ba la Mg 2.1898e+02
Ba la O 6.7822e+01
Ba la H 4.2840e-02
F ka Na 1.8327e+03
F ka K 1.0658e+04
F ka Cl 7.5904e+03
F ka Ba 3.1554e+03
F ka F 9.2209e+02
F ka Ti 1.4588e+04
F ka Fe 2.3374e+03
F ka Mn 1.6117e+04
F ka Ca 1.2415e+04
F ka Si 4.2952e+03
F ka Al 3.4208e+03
F ka Mg 2.6263e+03
F ka O 1.2440e+04
F ka H 2.4805e+01
Ti ka Na 1.5590e+02
Ti ka K 7.0770e+02
Ti ka Cl 5.1645e+02
Ti ka Ba 3.2787e+02
Ti ka F 8.7938e+01
Ti ka Ti 1.0869e+02
Ti ka Fe 1.7855e+02
Ti ka Mn 1.5394e+02
Ti ka Ca 8.1470e+02
Ti ka Si 3.1977e+02
Ti ka Al 2.5083e+02
Ti ka Mg 2.1325e+02
Ti ka O 6.5919e+01
Ti ka H 4.1490e-02
Fe ka Na 5.5397e+01
Fe ka K 2.7665e+02
Fe ka Cl 1.9695e+02
Fe ka Ba 6.1414e+02
Fe ka F 3.0620e+01
Fe ka Ti 3.7689e+02
Fe ka Fe 6.8270e+01
Fe ka Mn 5.9704e+01
Fe ka Ca 3.2161e+02
Fe ka Si 1.1782e+02
Fe ka Al 9.1605e+01
Fe ka Mg 7.6877e+01
Fe ka O 2.2548e+01
Fe ka H 1.2590e-02
Mn ka Na 6.8522e+01
Mn ka K 3.3731e+02
Mn ka Cl 2.4097e+02
Mn ka Ba 6.5921e+02
Mn ka F 3.8047e+01
Mn ka Ti 4.5531e+02
Mn ka Fe 8.3286e+01
Mn ka Mn 7.2508e+01
Mn ka Ca 3.9062e+02
Mn ka Si 1.4510e+02
Mn ka Al 1.1272e+02
Mn ka Mg 9.4808e+01
Mn ka O 2.8131e+01
Mn ka H 1.6010e-02
Ca ka Na 2.7733e+02
Ca ka K 1.1737e+03
Ca ka Cl 8.7515e+02
Ca ka Ba 5.5026e+02
Ca ka F 1.5790e+02
Ca ka Ti 1.8677e+02
Ca ka Fe 3.0742e+02
Ca ka Mn 2.6528e+02
Ca ka Ca 1.4983e+02
Ca ka Si 5.5579e+02
Ca ka Al 4.3892e+02
Ca ka Mg 3.7616e+02
Ca ka O 1.1972e+02
Ca ka H 8.1770e-02
Si ka Na 2.2375e+03
Si ka K 9.7768e+02
Si ka Cl 6.5835e+02
Si ka Ba 3.3056e+03
Si ka F 1.3201e+03
Si ka Ti 1.4132e+03
Si ka Fe 2.3053e+03
Si ka Mn 2.0250e+03
Si ka Ca 1.1465e+03
Si ka Si 3.5048e+02
Si ka Al 3.2132e+03
Si ka Mg 2.9015e+03
Si ka O 1.0337e+03
Si ka H 1.0618e+00
Al ka Na 3.3597e+03
Al ka K 1.4794e+03
Al ka Cl 9.9433e+02
Al ka Ba 4.6512e+03
Al ka F 2.0277e+03
Al ka Ti 2.1374e+03
Al ka Fe 3.4392e+03
Al ka Mn 3.0278e+03
Al ka Ca 1.7548e+03
Al ka Si 5.4409e+02
Al ka Al 4.0218e+02
Al ka Mg 4.2884e+03
Al ka O 1.5979e+03
Al ka H 1.8043e+00
Mg ka Na 5.2018e+03
Mg ka K 2.3234e+03
Mg ka Cl 1.5604e+03
Mg ka Ba 6.3391e+03
Mg ka F 3.1803e+03
Mg ka Ti 3.2972e+03
Mg ka Fe 5.2394e+03
Mg ka Mn 4.6163e+03
Mg ka Ca 2.7124e+03
Mg ka Si 8.5871e+02
Mg ka Al 6.3956e+02
Mg ka Mg 4.8748e+02
Mg ka O 2.5312e+03
Mg ka H 3.1956e+00
O ka Na 3.6300e+03 *
O ka K 1.9369e+04
O ka Cl 1.4300e+04 *
O ka Ba 4.5194e+03
O ka F 1.8500e+03 *
O ka Ti 1.9900e+04 *
O ka Fe 4.0000e+03 *
O ka Mn 3.4700e+03 *
O ka Ca 2.4600e+04 *
O ka Si 8.7900e+03 *
O ka Al 6.7200e+03 *
O ka Mg 5.1700e+03 *
O ka O 1.1999e+03
O ka H 5.7430e+01
* indicates empirical MAC
Empirical Mass Absorption Coefficients From:
C:\ProgramData\Probe Software\Probe for EPMA\EMPMAC.DAT
Z-LINE X-RAY Z-ABSOR MAC
O ka Na 3.6300e+03 Love et al. (1974)
O ka Cl 1.4300e+04 Love et al. (1974)
O ka F 1.8500e+03 Love et al. (1974)
O ka Ti 1.9900e+04 Bastin (1992)
O ka Fe 4.0000e+03 Bastin (1992)
O ka Mn 3.4700e+03 Bastin (1992)
O ka Ca 2.4600e+04 Love et al. (1974)
O ka Si 8.7900e+03 Bastin (1992)
O ka Al 6.7200e+03 Bastin (1992)
O ka Mg 5.1700e+03 Bastin (1992)
Area Peak Factors were utilized to correct x-ray intensities for wavelength peak shift and/or shape changes for compound compositions by summing binary APF values.
See G. F. Bastin and H. J. M. Heijligers, Quantitative Electron Probe Microanalysis of Carbon in Binary Carbides, Parts I and II, X-Ray Spectr. 15: 135-150, 1986
Empirical Area Peak Factors (APF) From:
C:\ProgramData\Probe Software\Probe for EPMA\EMPAPF.DAT
Z-LINE X-RAY Z-ABSOR APF RE-NORM
O ka Ti .9796 1.0000 TiO2/Fe2O3/WSi/59.8
O ka Fe .9962 1.0000 Fe3O4/Fe2O3/WSi/59.8
O ka Ca .9700 1.0000 ----/Fe2O3/WSi/59.8
O ka Si 1.0444 1.0000 SiO2/Fe2O3/WSi/59.8, Bastin
O ka Al 1.0213 1.0000 Al2O3/Fe2O3/WSi/59.8, Bastin
Results are the average of 12 points and detection limits ranged from .005 weight percent for Mg ka to .006 weight percent for Si ka to .015 weight percent for Fe ka to .050 weight percent for O ka to .076 weight percent for Ba la.
Analytical sensitivity (at the 99% confidence level) ranged from .176 percent relative for Si ka to .455 percent relative for Al ka to 1.512 percent relative for K ka to 27.053 percent relative for Mn ka to 123.772 percent relative for Mg ka.
Oxygen equivalent from halogens (F/Cl/Br/I), was not subtracted in the matrix correction.
The quantitative blank correction was utilized.
The exponential or polynomial background fit was utilized.
See John J. Donovan, Heather A. Lowers and Brian G. Rusk, Improved electron probe microanalysis of trace elements in quartz, American Mineralogist, 96, 274282, 2011
The matrix correction method was ZAF or Phi-Rho-Z Calculations and the mass absorption coefficients dataset was LINEMU Henke (LBL, 1985) < 10KeV / CITZMU > 10KeV.
The ZAF or Phi-Rho-Z algorithm utilized was Armstrong/Love Scott (default).
See J. T. Armstrong, Quantitative analysis of silicates and oxide minerals: Comparison of Monte-Carlo, ZAF and Phi-Rho-Z procedures, Microbeam Analysis--1988, p 239-246
Many users find this type of output (and the associated .dat and .xlsx files) to be very useful when writing up results. The exact output of course depends on the specific options utilized in your probe data file.
john
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