Evaluation of the oscillator frequency of a free running RF generator as a diagnostic tool for inductively coupled plasma-optical emission spectrometry

Spectrochimica Acta - Part B Atomic Spectroscopy

Volumn 71-72, Issue , 2012, Pages 48-53

  Wiltsche, Helmar ^a   Moradi, Farzaneh ^a   Knapp, Günter ^a  

^a GRAZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

Plasma diagnostic; Plasma stability; RF generator frequency

Indexed keywords

CENTRAL CHANNELS; CHARACTERISTIC FREQUENCIES; DIAGNOSTIC INFORMATION; DIAGNOSTIC TOOLS; EXCITATION TEMPERATURE; FREQUENCY COUNTERS; FREQUENCY MEASUREMENTS; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA-OPTICAL EMISSION SPECTROMETRY; LINEAR DEPENDENCE; MG II/MG I; OSCILLATOR FREQUENCY; PLASMA CONDITIONS; RF GENERATORS; ROTATIONAL TEMPERATURE; SPECTROSCOPIC PLASMA DIAGNOSTICS;

CARBON DIOXIDE; FREQUENCY RESPONSE; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA; PLASMA STABILITY;

PLASMA DIAGNOSTICS;

EID: 84864441753     PISSN: 05848547     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sab.2012.05.002     Document Type: Conference Paper

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