Microanalysis of automotive and aerospace samples using PBO-WDS on SEM

Feb 26, 2025 | 11 a.m. PDT | 2 p.m. EDT

Microanalysis of automotive and aerospace samples using PBO-WDS on SEM

Live Session 1* Wednesday February 26th 2025	Live Session 2* Wednesday February 26th 2025
10 am CET / Berlin 5 pm SGT / Singapore 6 pm JST / Tokyo	5 pm CET / Berlin 8 am PST / Los Angeles 11 am EST / New York

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What to expect?
Automotive and aerospace industries rely on highest quality of their diverse high-tech materials such as composites, steels and alloys. To ensure the quality of these materials before, during and after production processes as well as for failure analyses, microanalysis is a key technique. While EDS (Energy Dispersive Spectrometry) is the common tool for these tasks, WDS (Wavelength Dispersive Spectrometry) can complement the analyses with its specific advantages. Based on its technical principles, WDS results in better spectral resolution and better trace element performance than EDS. Bruker's QUANTAX WDS system performs PBO-WDS (WDS with parallel-beam optic), which has higher sensitivity for the low X-ray energies, i.e. a high performance for low-kV and light element applications. Here we present applications for PBO-WDS on samples of automotive and aerospace products where high spectral resolution, trace element detection and light element detection is of crucial importance. We will show combined EDS-WDS microanalyses of jet engine turbine blades, aerospace heat shielding material, truck sheet metals and their weldings, exhaust gas catalytic converters and more.