X-Ray Spectrometer Webinar Series
This three-part webinar series, Getting the Most Out of an Amptek X-Ray Spectrometer, provides a practical guide to understanding, configuring, and optimizing XRF spectrometer performance.
Beginning with the fundamentals of precision, accuracy, and detection limits, the series explains how detector and spectrometer choices influence measurement quality and explores the trade-offs between energy resolution, count rate, and overall system performance. The second webinar addresses common sources of confusion in X-ray spectroscopy, including intrinsic noise, dead time, interference effects, and sum peaks, helping users better understand and troubleshoot measurement challenges. The final session focuses on spectrometer tuning and optimization, covering both hardware configuration and digital pulse processor settings to maximize energy resolution, count rate, and system stability. Together, these webinars provide users with the knowledge needed to achieve reliable, high-quality analytical results from Amptek X-ray spectrometry systems.
Getting the most out of an Amptek X-Ray Spectrometer 1 - Precision Accuracy and Detection Limits
What are the best detector and spectrometer configurations for my XRF measurement? How do the detector and spectrometer affect the precision, accuracy, and detection limit of XRF? What is more important: The best energy resolution, highest count rate, or something else? Is there a “figure of merit” for comparing spectrometers and their configurations? We will show the relationships behind these quantities and data obtained in representative applications.
Getting the most out of an Amptek X-Ray Spectrometer 2 - Intrinsic Noise, Dead Time, and Interference
This webinar gives the background behind the most common problems and misunderstandings as they relate to Intrinsic noise (a.k.a. noise theory), Sum peaks and dead time.
Getting the most out of an Amptek X-Ray Spectrometer 3 - Tuning an Amptek Spectrometer
Learn how to optimize the configuration of an Amptek spectrometer, to achieve the best energy resolution, count rate, and stability. We will discuss both hardware configuration issues and the settings in Amptek’s digital pulse processors. We will discuss both the basic parameters, which should be tuned for most applications, and some of the advanced parameters, typically used for specialized applications.
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