Influence of wavelength, irradiance, and the buffer gas pressure on high irradiance laser ablation and ionization source coupled with an orthogonal Time of Flight Mass Spectrometer

Spectrochimica Acta - Part B Atomic Spectroscopy

Volumn 64, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 255-261

  Huang, Rongfu ^a   Yu, Quan ^a   Tong, Qingguo ^a   Hang, Wei ^a   He, Jian ^a   Huang, Benli ^a  

^a XIAMEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Laser ionization; Mass spectrometry; Solids analysis; Wavelength

Indexed keywords

BOILING POINT; GARNETS; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; ION SOURCES; IONIZATION OF GASES; IONIZATION OF SOLIDS; IONS; LASER ABLATION; LASER APPLICATIONS; MASS SPECTROMETERS; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MOLYBDENUM; NIOBIUM; PULSED LASER DEPOSITION; SILICATE MINERALS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; WAVELENGTH;

BUFFER GAS PRESSURES; COLLISIONAL COOLING; ELEMENTAL MASS; IONIZATION SOURCES; LASER IONIZATION; LASER IRRADIANCES; LASER WAVELENGTHS; LOW PRESSURES; METAL ELEMENTS; NON THERMALS; ORTHOGONAL TIME-OF-FLIGHT MASS SPECTROMETERS; PLASMA IONS; POLYATOMIC IONS; RELATIVE SENSITIVITY COEFFICIENTS; SOLIDS ANALYSIS; THERMAL ABLATIONS; THREE-WAVELENGTHS;

LASERS;

EID: 63449110604     PISSN: 05848547     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sab.2009.02.007     Document Type: Article

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