Microprobe Resources

The following hyper-linked documents are PDF (Portable Document Format) files that can be downloaded to your own computer filespace and/or viewed and printed with Acrobat Reader.

Acrobat Reader is available from Adobe as a free download.

Please note that these Resources are available only by LOCAL ACCESS.

User Manual (39.7 kb)
Version 1.00 (Jun 99)
(7 pages plus cover)
Guidelines for Safe Practice - Ancillary Equipment (11.3 kb)
Version 1.00 (Jun 99)
for Authorised Personnel only
JEOL 8600 Operation
Version 3.00 (Mar 2000)
Specimen Exchange (18.9 kb)
Loading Condition File (6.91 kb)
Preset Analysis (17.3 kb)
One-by-one Analysis (17.4 kb)
Back-Scattered Electron Imaging (7.16 kb)
Panic Instructions (10.4 kb)
ALL of the above (247 kb)
(16 pages plus cover)
Transfer of data from PDP to Acorn (18.1 kb)
Data Processing and export to Excel (11.5 kb)
Blank Analysis Record Sheet
Calculation
Microprobe Information Sheet 1 (11.1 kb)
Precision and Accuracy in Quantitative Microprobe Analysis
(1 page)

The following Excel Spreadsheet facilitates the calculation of Analytical Precision and Minimum Detection Limits using count rate data obtainable from the JEOL output listings.

Analytical Precision (Microsoft Excel)

A full ('F') output listing from Job 74 (in 'Unknown') or Job 4 (in 'Summary') is required from the microprobe for those analyses for which precision data is to be calculated, along with an output listing of standard intensities from Job 74 (in 'Standard'). A knowledge of the total counting times on peaks and backgrounds for specimen and standard is also required.