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Can electron energy-loss spectroscopy (EELS) be used to quantify hydrogen in minerals from the O K edge?

  • Laurence A.J. Garvie EMAIL logo
Published/Copyright: April 2, 2015
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American Mineralogist
From the journal American Mineralogist Volume 95 Issue 1

Abstract

The proposition has been made and is now gaining popular acceptance that electron energy-loss spectroscopy (EELS) attached to a transmission electron microscope (TEM) can be used to semiquantitatively measure H in minerals-specifically, that there is a pre-peak to the O K edge near 530 eV whose intensity is a measure of H concentration in OH- and H2O-bearing minerals. I show here that the O K edges from H-bearing minerals, free of electron-beam damage, lack a peak near 530 eV. Instead, under electron irradiation in the TEM, a transient peak near 530 eV can form in H-bearing as well as anhydrous minerals. The intensity of the transient peak is dependent on total fluence and fluence rate. The origin of the radiation-induced peak at 530 eV is from O2 liberated during damage by the incident electron beam. In conclusion, there is no evidence for an OH peak near 530 eV from H-bearing minerals.

Keywords: EELS; TEM; beam damage; hydrogen
Received: 2009-5-9
Accepted: 2009-9-18
Published Online: 2015-4-2
Published in Print: 2010-1-1

© 2015 by Walter de Gruyter Berlin/Boston

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https://doi.org/10.2138/am.2010.3290
Keywords for this article
EELS; TEM; beam damage; hydrogen

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