Preliminary Evaluation of Capabilities of Photoelectric Detection of High Resolution Molecular X-ray Fluorescence Spectra with a 5 M Grating Ultrasoft X-ray Spectrometer

Abstract

Abstract Using our recently developed high resolution 5 M grating spectrograph we have reported previously on the capabilities of photographic detection for obtaining molecular x-ray fluórescence spectra.(1,2) Accordingly, we indicated that in spite of a relatively inexpensive monochromator source the signal to noise ratio on O K in Li3 PO4 at equivalent instrumental resolution was of the same order of magnitude as that obtained by Wiech's group using photoelectric detection and the DORIS storage ring as a, source.(3)