Electrical charging during SIMS-analysis (secondary ion mass spectrometry) is a severe limitation for the analysis of non-conductive samples. In most cases this charging can be compensated with the aid of an electron gun. This is an already established method to analyze insulating samples. In this work results of a systematic study of electron gun charge compensation in our CAMECA ims5f ion mic...

Elsebeth Schröder, Roman Fasel, and Adam Kiejna Department of Applied Physics, Chalmers University of Technology and Göteborg University, SE-41296 Göteborg, Sweden Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Testing and Research (EMPA), nanotech@surfaces Laboratory, Feuerwerkerstrasse 39, CH-3602 Thun, Switzerland Institute of Experimental Physics, University of Wrocław, Plac M. Borna 9, PL-50-204...

In the article cited above, there are typographical errors in Table 3 with regard to the values for hospitalization for heart failure results. The results should state an incidence of 2.7% (126/4,687) with empagliflozin and 4.1% (95/2,333) with placebo, and the corresponding incidence rates should be 9.4/1,000 patient-years and 14.5/1,000 patient-years, respectively. The HR of 0.65 (95% CI 0.50...

where Q*i is the cross section per atom for ionization of the selected subshell of the i element, taking into account both direct ionization by the electrons of energy E and the effect of indirect ionizations at that subshell caused by the Coster-Kronig transitions. N, ρ, t and N are Avogadro's number, the density and thickness of a very thin tracer layer made of the i element and the number of...

We suggest that electron microprobe techniques may be employed to date Tertiary samples of uraninite (UO2), which can contain very high concentrations of radiogenic Pb after only a few million of years of U and Th decay. Although uraninite is regarded as a rare accessory mineral, it is relatively abundant in leucogranitic rocks such as those found in the Himalayan orogen. We apply the U-Th-tota...