Local Thermodynamic Equilibrium in Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy: Beyond the McWhirter criterion

Spectrochimica Acta - Part B Atomic Spectroscopy

Volumn 65, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 86-95

  Cristoforetti, G ^a   De Giacomo, A ^a,b   Dell'Aglio, M ^a   Legnaioli, S ^a   Tognoni, E ^a   Palleschi, V ^a   Omenetto, N ^c  

^a CNR   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BARI   (Italy)

^c University of Florida   (United States)

Author keywords

Inhomogeneous plasma; Laser induced plasma; Local Thermodynamic Equilibrium; McWhirter criterion; Transient plasma

Indexed keywords

ANALYTES; BOLTZMANN; CONCENTRATION OF; DIFFUSION COEFFICIENTS; ELECTRON NUMBER DENSITIES; EXPERIMENTAL APPROACHES; INHOMOGENEOUS PLASMA; LASER INDUCED PLASMA; LASER-INDUCED BREAKDOWN SPECTROSCOPY; LOCAL THERMODYNAMIC EQUILIBRIUM; NEW YORK; NON-HOMOGENEOUS; PLASMA DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES; PLASMA PARAMETER; QUANTITATIVE RESULT; SOLID TARGETS; SPACE AND TIME; SUFFICIENT CONDITIONS; THEORETICAL EXPRESSION; THERMODYNAMIC EQUILIBRIA; TRANSIENT PLASMAS;

LASER DAMAGE; LASER SPECTROSCOPY; LASERS; PLASMA DIAGNOSTICS; PLASMA PROBES; PULSED LASER APPLICATIONS; THERMODYNAMICS;

LASER PRODUCED PLASMAS;

EID: 72649107178     PISSN: 05848547     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sab.2009.11.005     Document Type: Article

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