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Additive Manufacturing Materials

Additive manufacturing is an ever-growing area of research interest that depends upon the high quality of precursor materials in order to achieve a robust final printed product. The quantitative elemental information AES provides from solid surfaces combined with FIB tomography allows for in situ cross-sectioning and subsequent elemental characterization of these materials.

For more information:

• PHI's webinar series: Nanoscale Surface Sensitive Chemical Imaging of Additive Manufacturing Materials
• Surface Analysis of Additive Manufacturing Material Application Note

Figure 1. SEM images (row a) of a FIB cross-section of a CuCrZr powder particle at 20 µm, 10 µm, and 5 µm field of view and elemental Auger maps (row b) at 3 µm field of view.