An X-ray fluorescence analyzer device comprises an X-ray source and a
sample window. Between the X-ray source and the sample window there are a
collimator plate with a plurality of microscopic pores and an annular
plate comprising material essentially opaque to X-rays. The annular plate
defines an area transparent to X-rays. The pores in said collimator plate
let through collimated X-rays radiated by said X-ray source towards said
sample window. The area transparent to X-rays in said annular plate
spatially limits in a transverse direction a beam of X-rays radiated by
said X-ray source towards said sample window.