Fast and accurate expression for the Voigt function. Application to the determination of uranium M linewidths

Spectrochimica Acta - Part B Atomic Spectroscopy

Volumn 63, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 962-967

  Limandri, Silvina P ^a,b   Bonetto, Rita D ^b,c   Di Rocco, Héctor O ^b,d   Trincavelli, Jorge C ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE CÓRDOBA   (Argentina)

^b Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas de la ^*  (Argentina)

^c DEPARTAMENTO DE QUÍMICA   (Argentina)

^d UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DEL CENTRO DE LA PROVINCIA DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

Author keywords

EPMA; Natural linewidths; Uranium M characteristic lines; Voigt function

Indexed keywords

ACTINIDES; ELECTRON PROBE MICROANALYSIS; MICROANALYSIS; STRUCTURAL OPTIMIZATION; TRANSURANIUM ELEMENTS; TREES (MATHEMATICS); URANIUM;

APPLIED MATHEMATICS; DEGREE OF ACCURACY; EPMA; EXPLICIT REPRESENTATION; FAST EVALUATION; GAUSSIAN; HYPERBOLIC FUNCTIONS; LINE-WIDTHS; LORENTZIAN DISTRIBUTIONS; NATURAL LINEWIDTHS; NUMERICAL ALGORITHMS; NUMERICAL IMPLEMENTATION; PARAMETER OPTIMIZATION; SPECTROSCOPY APPLICATIONS; URANIUM M CHARACTERISTIC LINES; VOIGT FUNCTION; VOIGT FUNCTIONS;

FUNCTION EVALUATION;

EID: 50149109816     PISSN: 05848547     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sab.2008.06.001     Document Type: Article

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