Progress in Thermal Lens Spectrometry and Its Applications in Microscale Analytical Devices

Critical Reviews in Analytical Chemistry

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 328-353

  Liu, Mingqiang ^a   Franko, Mladen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOVA GORICA   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Chemical environmental applications; microfluidics; thermal lens spectrometry

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC EQUIPMENT; CHEMICAL DETECTION; DETECTORS; FLUIDIC DEVICES; GAUSSIAN BEAMS; LASER EXCITATION; LASER THEORY; LIGHT SOURCES; MICROFLUIDICS; SEEBECK EFFECT; SPECTROMETRY;

EXCITATION LIGHT SOURCES; HIGH-THROUGHPUT DETECTION; MICRO FLUIDIC SYSTEM; MICRO-FLUIDIC DEVICES; MICROCHEMICAL ANALYSIS; PHOTO-THERMAL TECHNIQUES; THEORETICAL TREATMENTS; THERMAL LENS SPECTROMETRIES;

SURVEYING INSTRUMENTS;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; BIOCHEMISTRY; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CHEMICAL COMPOUND; DETECTION METHOD; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO; SPECTROMETRY;

ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; DEVICES; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMAN; MICROFLUIDIC ANALYSIS; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; PROCEDURES; SPECTROSCOPY; TEMPERATURE;

ANIMALS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMANS; LENSES; MICROCHEMISTRY; MICROFLUIDIC ANALYTICAL TECHNIQUES; PHOTOCHEMICAL PROCESSES; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84900863348     PISSN: 10408347     EISSN: 15476510     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10408347.2013.869171     Document Type: Review

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