5. Conclusion

Elastic collision and nuclear reaction spectrometry offer researchers, engineers and technicians a panoply of experimental tools for solving a wide range of analytical problems: volume or surface elemental composition, concentration gradient, lateral distribution, etc. Combined with methods based on induced X-ray emission, they provide very broad coverage of the periodic table, with relatively high detection limits and resolutions. Combined with the method based on the detection of induced X-ray emission, they provide very broad coverage of the periodic table, with relatively high-performance detection limits and resolutions. The main features of techniques based on elastic collisions and observation of nuclear reactions can be summarized as follows:

• a multi-element analysis ;

• isotopic specificity ;...