Progress of laser ionization mass spectrometry for elemental analysis - A review of the past decade

Spectrochimica Acta - Part B Atomic Spectroscopy

Volumn 65, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 871-883

  Lin, Yiming ^a   Yu, Quan ^a   Hang, Wei ^a   Huang, Benli ^a  

^a XIAMEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Elemental analysis; High irradiance laser ionization; Mass spectrometry; Resonance ionization; Single particle analysis

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; LASER ABLATION; MASS SPECTROMETRY;

HIGH IRRADIANCE LASER IONIZATIONS; ISOTOPE-RATIO MEASUREMENTS; LASER IONIZATION MASS SPECTROMETRIES; PLASMA CHARACTERIZATION; RESONANCE IONIZATION MASS SPECTROMETRY; SINGLE PARTICLE MASS SPECTROMETRY; SINGLE-PARTICLE ANALYSIS; SINGLE-PARTICLE CHARACTERIZATION;

IONIZATION OF SOLIDS;

EID: 78149281665     PISSN: 05848547     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sab.2010.08.007     Document Type: Review

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