When wanting to image a sample in cross-section, which method will provide the smoothest and flattest surface?

Say you are performing EDS mapping of a specimen composed of Al and Ga. When you generate your Al map, you notice that you have a rather high signal in regions when you should only have Ga present, dashed region in the image below. Furthermore, when you go back and perform a spectrum analysis on the dashed region, you do not see the presence of Al. In addition, the regions that do have aluminum only show a very small amount is present. The best explanation for this is _____:  

All of the following detectors are used in Auger analysis except which of the following?

In EDS, sum and escape peak artifacts become more significant at low count rates.

Which of the following SEM conditions will not increase the signal in CL?

What does James say about wealth? (select all that apply)

Tight junctions prevent movement of molecules across cell layers.

Once an RNA polymerase molecule has bound to a promoter site and locally unwound the DNA double helix, initiation of _______________ can take place.

During muscle contraction, thin actin filaments lengthen as they slide past thick myosin filaments.

All of the protein subunits of intermediate filaments are encoded by genes in the same gene family.