A DATA HANDLING AND CORRECTING PROGRAM FOR QUANTITATIVE ELECTRON MICROPROBE ANALYSIS

A data handling and correcting program adaptable to a minicomputer(16k mem-ory) for use in quantitative lectron icroprobe analysis was written in FOR-TRAN. The program is applicable to all elements in the atomic number range from5(B) o 92(U) and has the capability to deal with 12 elements and 30 measuringpoints each time. The data handling sub-program llows the time and number ofmeasurements for each analysing point to be varied at will and gives the averageintensity atios K as the output. The correcting sub-program allows the correctionof atomic number, absorption and fluorescence ffects and can handle various el-ements at different accelerating voltages. All physical constants, except atomicweights hich are stored in the memory, are calculated in the program, so thatonly few input data are needed.