Experimental and theoretical investigations about the vaporization of laser-produced aerosols and individual particles inside inductively-coupled plasmas - Implications for the extraction efficiency of ions prior to mass spectrometry

Spectrochimica Acta - Part B Atomic Spectroscopy

Volumn 76, Issue , 2012, Pages 70-76

  Flamigni, Luca ^a   Koch, Joachim ^a   Günther, Detlef ^a  

^a LABORATORY OF INORGANIC CHEMISTRY   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Diffusion losses; Ion extraction efficiency; Laser ablation inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry; Optical emission spectrometry; Particle vaporization

Indexed keywords

AB INITIO; ANALYTES; ATOMIC DIFFUSIONS; ATOMIC EMISSION; DIFFUSION LOSS; DIFFUSION-DRIVEN; ELEMENTAL FRACTIONATION; EXTRACTION EFFICIENCIES; ICP SOURCE; ICP-QMS; INDIVIDUAL PARTICLES; ION EXTRACTION; LA-ICP-MS; OPTICAL EMISSION SPECTROMETRY; SEMI-EMPIRICAL; SIGNAL DURATION; SILICATE GLASS; STANDARD MATERIALS; THEORETICAL INVESTIGATIONS; VACUUM INTERFACES; VAPORIZATION PROCESS;

AEROSOLS; DIFFUSION; EFFICIENCY; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA MASS SPECTROMETRY; IONS; LASER ABLATION; MASS SPECTROMETERS; OPTICAL EMISSION SPECTROSCOPY; SILICATES; VAPORIZATION; VAPORS;

EXTRACTION;

EID: 84867402256     PISSN: 05848547     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sab.2012.07.016     Document Type: Article

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