LIBS Info: Element Analysis

Title Authors Material Detector Spectrometer Software
Improvement of the sensitivity for the measurement of copper concentrations in soil by microwave-assisted laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy Martin Richardson, Matthieu Baudelet, Bruno Bouquet, Yuan Liu Soil Princeton Instruments ICCD Max Princeton Instruments Grating Spectrometer
Laser: Nd:YAG
Nonenm
10.0000mJ
NoneHz
Gate Delay: 0.500us
Gate Width: 2000.000us
The authors use MA-LIBS (Microwave assisted LIBS) to analyse pelletized soil samples. With the increased sensitivity, some increase in variability due to sample inhomogeneity was also detected.
Element Detection Limit (ppm) Wavelength (nm) Other Wavelengths (nm) Calibration Method Calibration Range (ppm) Notes
Ag 23.3000 (None) -10.0000 N/A None -10.0000--10.0000 Limited information is provided in the paper other than this result - Microwave Assisted LIBS analysis of soil pellets.
Cu 30.0000 (Minimum Concentration Detected) 324.7500 N/A Univariate 30.0000-1232.0000 Microwave Assisted LIBS analysis of Soil Pellets


Element RMSE (ppm) Wavelength (nm) Calibration Method Notes