A perspective on the tenth international conference on particle induced x-ray emission and its applications

摘要

The tenth meeting in the series of triennial International Conferences on Particle Induced X-ray Emission (PIXE) and its Applications marks a milestone for the field. Not only is there the significance of the tenth occurrence of the meeting, reflecting perhaps a symbolic coming of age of the technique, but a new policy on publishing the proceedings has been introduced. Extended abstracts of all conference submissions have been published as a CD-ROM, while contributions deemed by a panel of experienced PIXE scientists to represent the current status of PIXE development and applications were selected for publication in this journal, and so to be presented to a wider scientific audience than would normally be the case. The aim of this short introduction is to present an overview of the background and current state of development of PIXE to enable the succeeding papers to be seen in perspective. Copyright (c) 2005 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.