Design, construction and assessment of a field-deployable laser-induced breakdown spectrometer for remote elemental sensing

Spectrochimica Acta - Part B Atomic Spectroscopy

Volumn 61, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 88-95

  Palanco, Santiago ^a   López Moreno, Cristina ^a   Laserna, J Javier ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÁLAGA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Breakdown; Field; Laser; Plasma; Portable; Remote; Spectrometry

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC BREAKDOWN; POWER ELECTRONICS; REMOTE SENSING; SPECTROMETERS;

LINE OF SIGHT; PEAK POWER;

LASERS;

EID: 32344446820     PISSN: 05848547     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sab.2005.12.004     Document Type: Article

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