Characterisation and Validation of Submicron Structures in a Fe–Al–Nb Alloy Using Inverse Modelling of the PN Method for EPMA

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Issue		EPJ Web Conf. Volume 349, 2026 18^th European Workshop on Modern Developments and Applications in Microbeam Analysis (EMAS 2025)


Article Number		01002
Number of page(s)		13
DOI		https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/202634901002
Published online		29 January 2026

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