Temporal and spatial dynamics of laser-induced aluminum plasma in argon background at atmospheric pressure: Interplay with the ambient gas

Spectrochimica Acta - Part B Atomic Spectroscopy

Volumn 65, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 896-907

  Ma, Q L ^a,b   Motto Ros, V ^a,b   Lei, W Q ^a,b,c   Boueri, M ^a,b   Bai, X S ^c   Zheng, L J ^c   Zeng, H P ^c   Yu, J ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

^c EAST CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Abel inversion; Ambient gas effects; Laser induced plasma; Local thermodynamic equilibrium; Time and space resolved spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

ABEL INVERSION; AMBIENT GAS; LASER-INDUCED PLASMA; LOCAL THERMODYNAMIC EQUILIBRIUM; TIME- AND SPACE-RESOLVED SPECTROSCOPY;

ABLATION; ALUMINUM; ARGON; ARGON LASERS; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; ATOMIC EMISSION SPECTROSCOPY; CARRIER CONCENTRATION; ELECTRON DENSITY MEASUREMENT; FLUID DYNAMICS; HYDRODYNAMICS; LASER PRODUCED PLASMAS; PULSED LASER DEPOSITION; PULSED LASERS; SHOCK WAVES; THERMAL PLUMES; TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; VAPORS;

DENSITY OF GASES;

EID: 78149283134     PISSN: 05848547     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sab.2010.08.005     Document Type: Article

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