Rapid prototyping of solar-powered, battery-operated, atmospheric-pressure, sugar-cube size microplasma on hybrid, 3D chips for elemental analysis of liquid microsamples using a portable optical emission spectrometer

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 8366, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Zhang, X ^a   Karanassios, V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIBER-OPTIC SPECTROMETERS; MICRO-PLASMAS; MICROSAMPLES; OPTICAL EMISSION SPECTROMETER; SOLAR-POWERED; SPECTRAL EMISSION;

ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; ENVIRONMENTAL TECHNOLOGY; METAMATERIALS; PLASMA DEVICES; RAPID PROTOTYPING; SPECTROMETERS; SUGARS; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

LIQUID SUGAR;

EID: 84872842557     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.919550     Document Type: Conference Paper

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