Objective
This proposal is prepared with the help of an Exploratory Award. A research feasibility study has been performed and the results of the study are reported within the proposal description of this application. The proposal has been prepared by the prime proposer instead of the project coordinator, since finding of the project coordinator has been one of the tasks of the proposal expansion. The subject of the project is the development of a new technology and instrument for x ray microanalysis. x ray microanalysis is a powerful technique to make mapping of the elemental constitution on surfaces on a microscopic scale. The microanalysis method has been developed already in the late sixties, but it has had several technological limitations, which have restricted its use in laboratories only. Also the equipment has been expensive and required constant service afd monitoring. The development of two new technologies: X ray capillary optics and High Purity silicon technology has created an opportunity to develop a new type of an x ray microanalysis probe, which is compact, affordable and easy to operate: The Analytical Microfocus X ray pen (X pen). The X pen idea needs to be verified by constructing a prototype and testing its operation in the real life maicroanalysis applications. The key technologies related to manufacturing of the proptotype are microelectronics manufacturing and packaging technologies and metalglass joining technologies, which are required for the joining of the x ray capillary optical tube to the detector housing and the x ray tube. The application fields require knowledge in x ray spectroscopy and surface science. The proposing companies represent both the component manufacturing technologies and the instrument manufacturers, with a wide knowledge of the applications of x ray based microanalysis.
Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)
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CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
- natural sciences physical sciences electromagnetism and electronics microelectronics
- natural sciences chemical sciences inorganic chemistry metalloids
- natural sciences physical sciences optics spectroscopy
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00150 Helsinki
Finland
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