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Capabilities include:  Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM) Energy Dispersive X-ray Spectroscopy (EDS) Wave-length Dispersive Spectroscopy (WDS) Image Analysis

CC Technologies' SEM coupled with EDS, WDS and Image Analysis provides a powerful combination of tools for failure analysis, solution of production problems and for studies of metals, ceramics, minerals, pharmaceuticals, and other materials. These coupled instruments permit simultaneous viewing of samples in the magnification range 5X to 100,000X, and the characterization of the chemical species contained in the field of interest including the low atomic number elements B, C, N, O and F.

The distribution of elements in a sample may be determined in two dimensions by X-Ray Dot Mapping. In this technique, regions containing high concentrations of the elements produce high intensity regions in the corresponding dot map. Up to 13 elements can be mapped simultaneously. Another technique for determining the distribution of elements in a sample is through Line Profile Analysis (LPA). This EDS or WDS method can simultaneously measure the distribution of up to 16 elements along a line in the sample. Such LPA's have, for example, been utilized in the study of high temperature interactions between materials and the environment, in the characterization of segregation in welds and castings and in solid state diffusion studies.

The image analysis capability permits the quantification of various microstructural features such as grain and particle size distributions, phase morphology, and the percentage of various phases that may be present in the microstructure.

Brittle Intergranular Failure of a Nickel Base Superalloy 2000x	Aluminum Dendrites Formed in an Aluminum-Indium Alloy 3250x	Zinc Phosphate Coating 400x	Corrosion/Erosion Structure in Cast Stainless Steel 2000x	Iron Oxide 2500x
Precious metal crystals 200x	Corrosive attack of pipe steel. Back scatter electron image 100x	Brittle fracture in C-MN steel 500x	Crystals from casting operation 500x	Gold crystals 10,000x
Polished section of sputter coated deposit electrolytically etched 13,000x	Diatom fragments 8,000x	Stress corrosion cracking in 304 stainless steel 2000x	Fracture of hydrogen embrittled steel 10,000x	Hydrogen bubble on the fracture surface of pipe-line steel in the butt-weld region 120x
Paint film delamination 2000x	Tensile fracture of tire cord wire	Carbon particles 50x	Boride sputter-coated surface 4000x

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