Combined laser-induced breakdown with Raman spectroscopy: Historical technology development and recent applications

Applied Spectroscopy Reviews

Volumn 48, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 487-508

  Lin, Qingyu ^a,b   Niu, Guanghui ^a   Wang, Qihui ^a   Yu, Qiaoling ^a   Duan, Yixiang ^a  

^a SICHUAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b HEZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

hyphenated; instrumentation; LIBS Raman; spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

CULTURAL HERITAGE FIELD; DETECTION OF EXPLOSIVES; HYPHENATED; INSTRUMENTATION; LASER INDUCED BREAKDOWN; LASERINDUCED BREAKDOWN SPECTROSCOPY (LIBS); LIBS-RAMAN; TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT;

ATOMIC EMISSION SPECTROSCOPY; EXPLOSIVES DETECTION; RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY; SPECTROSCOPY;

INSTRUMENTS;

EID: 84876004104     PISSN: 05704928     EISSN: 1520569X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/05704928.2012.751028     Document Type: Review

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