LIBS Info: Element Analysis

Title Authors Material Detector Spectrometer Software
Calibration measurements in laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy using nanosecond and picosecond lasers P. Stavropoulos, S. Couris, C. Palagas, G.N. Angelopoulos, D.N. Papamantellos Slag Not Known Not Known
Laser: Nd:YAG
1064.0000nm
NonemJ
10.000Hz
Gate Delay: 1.000us
Gate Width: 3.000us
Main purpose of this work is to contrast nanosecond(5ns) and picosecond (35ps) LIBS results. Reproducibility was strongly affected by the jitter in the laser pulse energies (5% for the nanosecond laser, 20% for the ps). The end use of this research was the analysis of ferronickel slag. In this paper a slag analogue made up of CaO and pure metal powders ground to together and pressed into pellets was used. Plasma temperature measurements showed a consistently higher temperature for ns pulses compared to ps. Similarly electron densities were higher with ns pulses.
Element Detection Limit (ppm) Wavelength (nm) Other Wavelengths (nm) Calibration Method Calibration Range (ppm) Notes
Al 3.5000 (Stated) -10.0000 309.27 Univariate Calibration 2000.0000-20000.0000 Nanosecond pulses used. No normalisation/ratioing
Al 15.0000 (Stated) 309.2700 N/A Univariate Calibration 2000.0000-20000.0000 Picosecond pulses used. No ratioing
Fe 11.0000 (Stated) 404.5800 N/A Univariate Calibration 2000.0000-20000.0000 Nanosecond pulses.
Fe 18.0000 (Stated) 404.5800 N/A Univariate Calibration 2000.0000-20000.0000 Picosecond pulses
Si 6.0000 (Stated) 288.1600 N/A Univariate Calibration 2000.0000-20000.0000 Nanosecond pulses
Si 9.0000 (Stated) 288.1600 N/A Univariate Calibration 2000.0000-20000.0000 Picosecond pulses


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