G. Weber et al., USE OF A VARIABLE INCIDENCE ANGLE PIXE ARRANGEMENT FOR STUDYING PIGMENT MULTILAYERS, Nuclear instruments & methods in physics research. Section B, Beam interactions with materials and atoms, 139(1-4), 1998, pp. 196-201
Particle induced X-ray emission (PIXE) method is used in the field of
archeometry and specially to investigate pigment colored multilayers.
The tilting of the sample with respect to the incident proton beam dir
ection allows to modify the relative contribution of each layer to the
fluorescence signal. The experimental results coupled to computer sim
ulations lead to semi-quantitative information about the thickness, th
e position and the composition of the successive layers. (C) 1998 Else
vier Science B.V.