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6 - Chemical imaging of surfaces using LIBS

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 August 2009

By
J. M. Vadillo  and
J. J. Laserna
Edited by
Andrzej W. Miziolek ,
Vincenzo Palleschi  and
Israel Schechter
J. M. Vadillo
Affiliation:
Department of Analytical Chemistry, University of Málaga
J. J. Laserna
Affiliation:
Department of Analytical Chemistry, University of Málaga
Andrzej W. Miziolek
Affiliation:
U.S. Army Research Laboratory, USA
Vincenzo Palleschi
Affiliation:
Istituto per I Processi Chimico-Fisici, Italy
Israel Schechter
Affiliation:
Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa
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Summary

Introduction

The increasing demand of materials science for new and different kinds of information has resulted in radical changes in instrument capabilities during the past decade. Indeed, the central challenge to materials science of achieving an understanding of the continuum from the atomic level through nanomaterials to bulk properties of matter can be faced only with tools and methods of unprecedent analytical potential. Of particular relevance to this central problem has been the response given by chemical imaging methods. While a large number of imaging methods are available, the term chemical imaging refers to the information provided by some classes of imaging methods that can incorporate information on chemical identity to spatial dimensions. In this chapter we review the uses of LIBS as a chemical imaging tool. The several operating modes of LIBS imaging are presented and its properties of spatial resolution are discussed. The broad front of applications that has resulted from these properties is illustrated with examples taken from real world analytical situations.

It was not until relatively recent times that scientists came to understand the relationships between the structural elements of materials and their properties, empowering to a large degree the characteristics of materials, surfaces and interfaces [1]. To understand fully the surface of a solid material, analytical techniques are needed that not only distinguish the surface from the bulk of the solid, but also approaches are required that distinguish the properties of each [2].

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Laser Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy , pp. 254 - 281
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2006

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