Laser ablation for analytical sampling: What can we learn from modeling?

Spectrochimica Acta - Part B Atomic Spectroscopy

Volumn 58, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 1867-1893

  Bogaerts, Annemie ^a   Chen, Zhaoyang ^a   Gijbels, Renaat ^a   Vertes, Akos ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^b GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Evaporation; Inductively coupled plasma; Laser ablation; Modeling; Plasma; Plume expansion

Indexed keywords

COPPER; DATA REDUCTION; EVAPORATION; HEATING; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA; LASER PULSES; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; THERMAL EXPANSION; THERMAL PLUMES; VAPORIZATION;

PLUME EXPANSION;

PULSED LASER DEPOSITION;

EID: 0344552482     PISSN: 05848547     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sab.2003.08.004     Document Type: Article

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