Dr Qiqi Yan
(Bruker Nano GmbH, Am Studio 2D, 12489 Berlin, Germany)

Biodata :

Dr. Qiqi Yan is a Sales Manager for Greater China and Korea region. Qiqi Yan has PhD from East China University of Science and Technology, material science. He has been in Bruker and focused in micro-XRF sales and applications in different segments for 6 years. He has a strong XRF background and a lot of experiences on the potentials of micro-XRF.

Topic : A deeper insight into materials: potentials of µ-XRF

Micro-X-ray fluorescence (Micro-XRF) as it was called at the beginning is a spatially resolved version of X-ray fluorescence analysis. This analytical technique was first described more than 50 years ago. In recent years a series of technological developments, from excitation sources, to enhanced detection possibilities and signal processing capabilities and algorithms have allowed improvement in the performance of the technique, making it useful as a standard analytical tool, especially for fast elements mapping. Micro-XRF is relatively universal, and from an application point of view it shows multiple overlaps when compared with these techniques. It provides significant complementary information in the analytical process of complex sample evaluation. We will introduce the application of Micro-XRF in Gradient materials, Geology/Mining, Foreign Particle Identification in this presentation. The aim is to describe what is possible and where the technique is now in terms of analytical performance, as well as the advantages of Micro-XRF.