Low power capacitively coupled plasma microtorch for simultaneous multielemental determination by atomic emission using microspectrometers

Microchemical Journal

Volumn 97, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 188-195

  Frentiu, Tiberiu ^a   Petreus, Dorin ^b   Senila, Marin ^c   Mihaltan, Alin I ^c   Darvasi, Eugen ^c   Ponta, Michaela ^c   Plaian, Emil ^b   Cordos, Emil A ^b  

^a BABE BOLYAI UNIVERSITY   (Romania)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF CLUJ NAPOCA   (Romania)

^c National Institute for Research and Development of Optoelectronics Bucharest   (Romania)

Author keywords

Atomic emission spectrometry; Capacitively coupled plasma microtorch; Microspectrometer; Multielemental determination

Indexed keywords

EID: 78649935273     PISSN: 0026265X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.microc.2010.09.003     Document Type: Article

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