Femtosecond laser ablation inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry: Fundamentals and capabilities for depth profiling analysis

Mass Spectrometry Reviews

Volumn 27, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 609-623

  Plsonero, Jorge ^a   Günther, Detlef ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OVIEDO   (Spain)

^b LABORATORY OF INORGANIC CHEMISTRY   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Depth profiling; Femtosecond laser; Inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry; Laser ablation

Indexed keywords

AEROSOLS; ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CHEMICAL ELEMENTS; DEPTH PROFILING; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA MASS SPECTROMETRY; IONIZATION; LASER ABLATION; LASER APPLICATIONS; LASER EXCITATION; LASERS; MASS SPECTROMETERS; MASS SPECTROMETRY; PHOTORESISTS; PLASMAS; POLYMERS; PULSED LASER APPLICATIONS; PULSED LASER DEPOSITION; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS; SPECTROMETERS; SPECTROMETRY; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; TRACE ELEMENTS; ULTRASHORT PULSES;

ABLATION PROCESSES; AEROSOL GENERATIONS; AEROSOL TRANSPORTS; ANALYTICAL METHODS; DEPTH PROFILES; DIRECT SOLID ANALYSIS; ELEMENTAL COMPOSITIONS; FEMTOSECOND LASER; FEMTOSECOND LASER ABLATIONS; FIGURES OF MERITS; FRACTIONATION EFFECTS; IONIZATION EFFICIENCIES; ISOTOPE RATIOS; LASER BEAM PROFILES; MASS ANALYZERS; MATERIAL SCIENCES; METAL SAMPLES; NEW APPLICATIONS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSES; RECENT PROGRESSES; RESEARCH FIELDS; SEMI-CONDUCTORS; SOLID SAMPLINGS; TRACE ELEMENT CONCENTRATIONS; TRANSPORT EFFICIENCIES; UNIVERSAL APPLICATIONS;

ABLATION;

PROTEOME;

ARTICLE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; MASS SPECTROMETRY; METHODOLOGY; PROTEOMICS;

GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; PROTEOME; PROTEOMICS; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, MATRIX-ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION-IONIZATION;

EID: 57249101999     PISSN: 02777037     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mas.20180     Document Type: Article

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