Glossary
Scanning electron microscopy -Images, applications and developments

Cathodoluminescence; Cathodoluminescence

Spectral or imaging analysis of non-conductive samples, such as semiconductors or insulators, often rocks, emitting in the visible range (from IR to UV). A specific detector must be installed in the SEM chamber.

Détecteur BSE ; BSE detector

Detector placed under the objective lens and above the sample: enables chemical, crystallographic or magnetic contrasts to be highlighted.

EBSD detector; Détecteur EBSD

Camera that captures diffraction patterns from the sample as it scans an area of the sample. Point-by-point analysis provides an image of the crystallographic orientation of the sample grains.

Détecteur EDS ; EDS detector

Recovers photons emitted during electron-matter interaction, and enables chemical species present in the sample to be determined and quantified point by point (spectrum), or in imaging.