On-line detection of heavy metals and brominated flame retardants in technical polymers with laser-induced breakdown spectrometry

Applied Optics

Volumn 42, Issue 30, 2003, Pages 6210-6220

  Stepputat, Michael ^a   Noll, Reinhard ^a  

^a FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR LASER TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; ATOMIC SPECTROSCOPY; EMISSION SPECTROSCOPY; HEAVY METALS; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA; LASER OPTICS; SOLID WASTES;

ELECTRONIC WASTES;

FLAME RETARDANTS;

EID: 0242366209     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.42.006210     Document Type: Article

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