Li EPMA

[JonF]

Following on from the job advertised recently:
PhD Position at Sorbonne developing Li EPMA with new instrumentation (https://probesoftware.com/smf/index.php?topic=3.msg9684#msg9684)

Has anyone else done any Li EPMA? That looks a cracking project, but it's going to keep somebody busy!

[jon_wade]

Is this on a Cameca? I understand the commercial logic of their approach, but less the efficacy. Have they removed the spectrometer separation window?

Also interested to hear peoples thoughts

[JonF]

Cameca aren't listed as being involved, but I read "microprobe" and "Paris" and thought the same thing.

I'd be interested to see what they've come up with. I'm intrigued where the zone plate sits: between the sample and diffracting crystal or the diffracting crystal and the detector?
The phrase "multilayer mirror" makes me wonder whether its even a Rowland circle-based spectrometer.