Service: 1D/3D XRF Confocal mapping (CXRF)
Platforms
Molab
Techniques
Xrf confocal mapping
Organization
Service contact persons
Confocal XRF is a non-invasive analytical technique used to characterize samples with complex stratigraphy. The technique offers high chemical sensitivity and micrometric spatial resolution, enabling the detection of inorganic elements from the surface to the interior of the object, up to several hundred microns deep. It is particularly useful for analyzing paintings, ancient polychromies, inks, and plated metals, and has applications in archaeology, art, conservation, and restoration.
Confocal XRF is an advanced analytical technique to be used in situ for the non-invasive characterization of samples with complex stratigraphy. It allows users to achieve in a short time the 1D elemental in-depth profiling or, with longer measurements, the 3D elemental mapping of multi-layered samples. Confocal XRF detected with high chemical sensitivity and with a spatial resolution in the micrometric scale, chemical elements from the object’s surface down to the object’s interior, over a thickness of few hundreds of microns. Confocal XRF is particularly suited for the characterization of paintings, ancient polychromies, inks, plated metals; and it can be used in many multidisciplinary applications including forensics, archaeology, art, conservation and restoration.
Activity should be performed following the local rules ofor radioprotection. Permissions must be granted by the user before starting the activity.
Fields of application
Archaeology
Archaeometry
Conservation science (cultural heritage discipline)
Heritage science (cultural heritage discipline)