Renaat Gijbels

TL;DR: An overview of gas discharge plasmas can be found in this paper, where the most important applications of these and related plasmmas are discussed, as well as their working principles.

TL;DR: In this paper, the effect of the laser fluence on the target heating, melting and vaporization, and on the plume characteristics and plasma formation is studied, as well as the resulting plasma shielding of 0 q 2q the incoming laser beam.

TL;DR: In this article, an extensive collisional-radiative model for the argon atoms in a glow discharge has been developed, where the processes taken into account are radiative decay, electron, fast argon ion and argon atom and thermal argon impact ionization, excitation and deexcitation between all the levels, electron-ion radiative recombination, and electronion three-body recombination where the third body is an electron or atom.

TL;DR: Static secondary ion mass spectrometry (S-SIMS) as discussed by the authors allows the chemical characterization of the constituents in the upper monomolecular layer of a solid sample within the range of micro-analytical methods.

TL;DR: In this article, Van Vaeck et al. presented a method for using low and medium laser irradiance for mass spectrometry in space research applications, which was based on the high-laser irradiance regime.