Phenomenological studies on structure and elemental composition of nanosecond and femtosecond laser-generated aerosols with implications on laser ablation inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry

Spectrochimica Acta - Part B Atomic Spectroscopy

Volumn 65, Issue 9-10, 2010, Pages 812-822

  Glaus, Reto ^a   Kaegi, Ralf ^b   Krumeich, Frank ^a   Günther, Detlef ^a  

^a LABORATORY OF INORGANIC CHEMISTRY   (Switzerland)

^b SWISS FEDERAL INSTITUTE OF AQUATIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Aerosol particles; Elemental fractionation; ICPMS; Laser ablation

Indexed keywords

AEROSOL PARTICLES; CONDUCTING MATERIALS; ELEMENTAL COMPOSITIONS; ELEMENTAL FRACTIONATION; ENERGY DISPERSIVE X RAY SPECTROSCOPY; EXCIMERS; FEMTO-SECOND LASER; FEMTOSECONDS; HYDRODYNAMIC SPUTTERING; ICPMS; IR LASERS; LASER GENERATED AEROSOLS; LASER SYSTEMS; LASER-ABLATION INDUCTIVELY-COUPLED PLASMA MASS SPECTROMETRY; MATRIX; MATRIX COMPONENTS; METALLIC SAMPLES; MICROSCOPIC STUDY; MICROSCOPIC TECHNIQUES; NANOPARTICLE AGGLOMERATES; PARTICLE FORMATION MECHANISM; PARTICLE FRACTION; PARTICLE GROWTH MECHANISMS; PHASE EXPLOSION; SPHERICAL PARTICLE; TEM; TEM-EDX; TI:SAPPHIRE; TWO-STATE; UV LASERS;

AGGLOMERATION; ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS; BRASS; ELECTROMAGNETIC INDUCTION; FRACTIONATION; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA MASS SPECTROMETRY; LASER ABLATION; MASS SPECTROMETERS; MORPHOLOGY; NANOPARTICLES; PULSED LASER APPLICATIONS; SEMICONDUCTOR GROWTH; SILICATE MINERALS; SPECTROMETRY; SPHERES; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; X RAY SPECTROSCOPY; ZIRCON;

SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

EID: 77957130862     PISSN: 05848547     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sab.2010.07.005     Document Type: Article

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