Compositional Depth Profiling of Hard Disks with Glow Discharge Atomic Emission Spectrometry (GD-AES)

Spectroscopy Performance Note Quantitative Depth Profile (QDP) Analysis of Carburized Steel • Carbon Concentration Gradient • Case Depth • Alloy Variation Introduction Case hardening, or carburization, of steel is performed to provide improved tribological characteristics at the surface of a…

GDS Applications Lab • LECO Corporation, Saint Joseph, Michigan USA Zoom C Spectroscopy Application Snapshot Quantitative Depth Profile (QDP) Analysis of Commercial Hard Disk on Aluminum Alloy Substrate GDS-850A analysis of a commercial hard disk. Layers present include a thin…

Why Can GDS Analyze Grey Iron and Other As-Cast Materials? LECO Corporation; Saint Joseph, Michigan USA Instrument: GDS To help illustrate the need for a longer pre-burn, cast iron samples were analyzed with a LECO GDS850A. The resulting compositional depth…

Application Note Instrument: GDS900 EMPOWERING RESULTS Using Bulk Analysis to Characterize the Carbon Gradient in Carburized Steel LECO Corporation; Saint Joseph, Michigan USA Key Words: Surface Carbon Analysis, Sub-Surface Analysis, Case Analysis by Grinding, Compositional Analysis, Glow Discharge AES, Glow…