TY - JOUR KW - Calibration KW - Laser ablation KW - Inductively coupled plasma (icp) AU - Richard E Russo AU - Xianglei Mao AU - Haichen Liu AU - Jhanis J Gonzalez AU - Samuel S Mao AB -
Laser ablation is becoming a dominant technology for direct solid sampling in analytical chemistry. Laser ablation refers to the process in which an intense burst of energy delivered by a short laser pulse is used to sample (remove a portion of) a material. The advantages of laser ablation chemical analysis include direct characterization of solids, no chemical procedures for dissolution, reduced risk of contamination or sample loss, analysis of very small samples not separable for solution analysis, and determination of spatial distributions of elemental composition. This review describes recent research to understand and utilize laser ablation for direct solid sampling, with emphasis on sample introduction to an inductively coupled plasma (ICP). Current research related to contemporary experimental systems, calibration and optimization, and fractionation is discussed, with a summary of applications in several areas.
AD -Univ Calif Berkeley, Lawrence Berkeley Lab, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA
AN - 138 BT - Talanta C2 - LBNL-48521 DA - 05/2002 DO - 10.1016/S0039-9140(02)00053-X IS - 3 LA - eng LB - Laser N2 -Laser ablation is becoming a dominant technology for direct solid sampling in analytical chemistry. Laser ablation refers to the process in which an intense burst of energy delivered by a short laser pulse is used to sample (remove a portion of) a material. The advantages of laser ablation chemical analysis include direct characterization of solids, no chemical procedures for dissolution, reduced risk of contamination or sample loss, analysis of very small samples not separable for solution analysis, and determination of spatial distributions of elemental composition. This review describes recent research to understand and utilize laser ablation for direct solid sampling, with emphasis on sample introduction to an inductively coupled plasma (ICP). Current research related to contemporary experimental systems, calibration and optimization, and fractionation is discussed, with a summary of applications in several areas.
PY - 2002 SP - 425 EP - 451 T2 - Talanta TI - Laser ablation in analytical chemistry - a review VL - 57 ER -