Plating and Plating Baths

Another very large market for EDXRF is the plating and plating bath market. There are large numbers of specially constructed µXRF instruments sold every year for monitoring plating thickness, many of them have software that allows them to measure multiple layers. EDXRF instruments are better suited for plating bath analysis and can even be used on-line. Here is a list of a number of common elements although virtually any plating and plating bath can be analyzed by XRF.
a) Gold
b) Platinum
c) Rhodium
d) Iridium
e) Titanium
f) Chromium
g) Chromate
h) Nickel
i) Sn-Pb Solder