Recent trends and the future of laser-induced plasma spectroscopy

Hardness determination of bio-ceramics using Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy

“…LIBS is a powerful analytical tool capable of sampling solids, liquids and gases for research and industrial applications [7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14]. LIBS historically has been a qualitative technique but over recent years it has developed into a pseudo-quantitative materials micro-analysis technique, capable of determining elemental composition, providing suitable calibration has been performed beforehand [10].…”

“…LIBS historically has been a qualitative technique but over recent years it has developed into a pseudo-quantitative materials micro-analysis technique, capable of determining elemental composition, providing suitable calibration has been performed beforehand [10]. Several excellent review articles [8][9][10][12][13][14][15][16] regarding LIBS fundamentals, applications and experimental approaches have been published. LIBS is a very versatile analytical technique, and has been employed in numerous industrial [17][18][19], environmental [20][21][22] and archaeological [23][24][25] applications, to give but a few examples.…”

“…The ablated material is composed of neutral particles, free electrons and ionic species, and may be considered as a hightemperature plasma, approximately 10 3 -10 5 K [7][8][9]. Spectroscopic analysis of the optical emission from the excited plasma species can allow for characterization of the sample under investigation.…”

Fundamental Study on Ablation Sampling of Fe-based Binary Alloys in Laser-induced Breakdown Optical Emission Spectrometry

“…1,2 LIBS is based on a time-resolved measurement of atomic and ionic emission lines excited from a plasma state generated just above the surface of a sample after focusing of an intense laser pulse. 2 It is widely recognized as a direct analytical method for various samples because of the following advantages: [3][4][5] (1) it is not necessary to conduct complicated pretreatment for the sample preparation, because any kind of solid sample can be directly introduced into the plasma through laser ablation, (2) the analysis time is short as it is a direct analytical method, and therefore observation in real time is possible, (3) it is applied to a remote sensing measurement that can perform the analysis from a distance, and (4) it has the ability of multi-elemental determination so that almost all elements can be measured. As LIBS could become an alternative method to make up for disadvantages of conventional analytical methods, various studies have been pushed forward for practical applications of LIBS.…”

Burst Mode Q:switched Laser Pulses for Plasma Excitation in LIBS Analysis

“…By analyzing the light emitted by the plasma, it is possible to determine the elemental composition of practically any material. This technique has significant advantages over other conventional analytical techniques (Cremers, 2007;Rusak et al, 1998;Song et al, 1997). For example, requires no sample preparation, may be performed in solid, liquid or gas phase in samples with any shape or dimension.…”