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Laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS), part II: review of instrumental and methodological approaches to material analysis and applications to different fields.

01 Apr 2012-Applied Spectroscopy (SAGE Publications)-Vol. 66, Iss: 4, pp 347-419
TL;DR: The current state-of-the-art of analytical LIBS is summarized, providing a contemporary snapshot of LIBS applications, and highlighting new directions in laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy, such as novel approaches, instrumental developments, and advanced use of chemometric tools are discussed.
Abstract: The first part of this two-part review focused on the fundamental and diagnostics aspects of laser-induced plasmas, only touching briefly upon concepts such as sensitivity and detection limits and largely omitting any discussion of the vast panorama of the practical applications of the technique. Clearly a true LIBS community has emerged, which promises to quicken the pace of LIBS developments, applications, and implementations. With this second part, a more applied flavor is taken, and its intended goal is summarizing the current state-of-the-art of analytical LIBS, providing a contemporary snapshot of LIBS applications, and highlighting new directions in laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy, such as novel approaches, instrumental developments, and advanced use of chemometric tools. More specifically, we discuss instrumental and analytical approaches (e.g., double- and multi-pulse LIBS to improve the sensitivity), calibration-free approaches, hyphenated approaches in which techniques such as Raman and fluorescence are coupled with LIBS to increase sensitivity and information power, resonantly enhanced LIBS approaches, signal processing and optimization (e.g., signal-to-noise analysis), and finally applications. An attempt is made to provide an updated view of the role played by LIBS in the various fields, with emphasis on applications considered to be unique. We finally try to assess where LIBS is going as an analytical field, where in our opinion it should go, and what should still be done for consolidating the technique as a mature method of chemical analysis.
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TL;DR: Compared to the conventional flame emission spectroscopy, LIBS atomizes only the small portion of the sample by the focused laser pulse, which makes a tiny spark on the sample, and capturing the instant light is a major skill to collect sufficient intensity of the emitting species.
Abstract: ■ CONTENTS General Information: Books, Reviews, and Conferences 640 Fundamentals 641 Interaction of Laser Beam with Matter 641 Factors Affecting Laser Ablation and LaserInduced Plasma Formation 642 Influence of Target on the Laser-Induced Plasmas 642 Influence of Laser Parameters on the LaserInduced Plasmas 643 Laser Wavelength (λ) 643 Laser Pulse Duration (τ) 643 Laser Pulse Energy (E) 645 Influence of Ambient Gas on the Laser-Induced Plasmas 645 LIBS Methods 647 Double Pulse LIBS 647 Femtosecond LIBS 651 Resonant LIBS 652 Ranging Approaches 652 Applications 654 Surface Inspection, Depth Profiling, and LIBS Imaging 654 Cultural Heritage 654 Industrial Analysis 655 Environmental Monitoring 656 Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Analysis 658 Security and Forensics 659 Analysis of Liquids and Submerged Solids 660 Space Exploration and Isotopic Analysis 662 Space Exploration 662 Isotopic Analysis 662 Conclusions and Future Outlook 663 Author Information 664 Corresponding Author 664 Notes 664 Biographies 664 Acknowledgments 664 References 664

847 citations

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TL;DR: Last decade's advances and modern aspects of near infrared spectroscopy are critically examined and reviewed in order to understand why the technique has found intensive application in the most diverse and modern areas of analytical importance during the last ten years.

627 citations

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TL;DR: Current issues in fundamental research, applications based on detecting photons at the ablation site and by collecting particles for excitation in a secondary source (ICP), and directions for the technology are discussed.
Abstract: In 2002, we wrote an Analytical Chemistry feature article describing the Physics of Laser Ablation in Microchemical Analysis. In line with the theme of the 2002 article, this manuscript discusses current issues in fundamental research, applications based on detecting photons at the ablation site (LIBS and LAMIS) and by collecting particles for excitation in a secondary source (ICP), and directions for the technology.

250 citations

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TL;DR: In this article, a review on the analytical results obtained by laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS) is presented, including the risk of misclassification, and results on concentration measurement based on calibration are accompanied with significant figures of merit including the concept of accuracy.

236 citations

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04 Jan 2007-Nature
TL;DR: The presence of tiny holes in an opaque metal film leads to a wide variety of unexpected optical properties such as strongly enhanced transmission of light through the holes and wavelength filtering, which are now known to be due to the interaction of the light with electronic resonances in the surface of the metal film.
Abstract: The presence of tiny holes in an opaque metal film, with sizes smaller than the wavelength of incident light, leads to a wide variety of unexpected optical properties such as strongly enhanced transmission of light through the holes and wavelength filtering. These intriguing effects are now known to be due to the interaction of the light with electronic resonances in the surface of the metal film, and they can be controlled by adjusting the size and geometry of the holes. This knowledge is opening up exciting new opportunities in applications ranging from subwavelength optics and optoelectronics to chemical sensing and biophysics.

2,009 citations

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01 Jan 2006
TL;DR: In this article, Russo and Miziolek presented a short-pulse LIBS-based spectral detector for high-resolution laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy, which can be used for the analysis of pharmaceutical materials.
Abstract: Preface R. Russo and A. W. Miziolek 1. History and fundamentals of LIBS D. A. Cremers and L. J. Radziemski 2. Plasma morphology I. Schechter and V. Bulatov 3. From sample to signal in laser induced breakdown spectroscopy: a complex route to quantitative analysis E. Tognoni, V. Palleschi, M. Corsi, G. Cristoforetti, N. Omenetto, I. Gornushkin, B. W. Smith and J. D. Winefordner 4. Laser induced breakdown in gases: experiments and simulation C. G. Parigger 5. Analysis of aerosols by LIBS U. Panne and D. Hahn 6. Chemical imaging of surfaces using LIBS J. M. Vadillo and J. J. Laserna 7. Biomedical applications of LIBS H. H. Telle and O. Samek 8. LIBS for the analysis of pharmaceutical materials. S. Bechard and Y. Mouget 9. Cultural heritage applications of LIBS D. Anglos and J. C. Miller 10. Civilian and military environmental contamination studies using LIBS J. P. Singh, F. Y. Yueh, V. N. Rai, R. Harmon, S. Beaton, P. French, F. C. DeLucia, Jr., B. Peterson, K. L. McNesby and A. W. Miziolek 11. Industrial applications of LIBS R. Noll, V. Sturm, M. Stepputat, A. Whitehouse, J. Young and P. Evans 12. Resonance-enhanced LIBS N. H. Cheung 13. Short-pulse LIBS: fundamentals and applications R. E. Russo 14. High-speed, high resolution LIBS using diode-pumped solid state lasers H. Bette and R. Noll 15. LIBS using sequential laser pulses J. Pender, B. Pearman, J. Scaffidi, S. R. Goode and S. M. Angel 16. Micro LIBS technique P. Fichet, J-L, Lacour, D. Menut, P. Mauchien, A. Rivoallan, C. Fabre, J. Dubessy and M-C. Boiron 17. New spectral detectors for LIBS M. Sabsabi and V. Detalle 18. Spark-induced breakdown spectroscopy: a description of an electrically-generated LIBS-like process for elemental analysis of airborne particulates and solid samples A. J. R. Hunter and L. G. Piper.

1,050 citations

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TL;DR: Basic diagnostics aspects of laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy are focused on and a review of the past and recent LIBS literature pertinent to this topic is presented and previous research on non-laser-based plasma literature, and the resulting knowledge, is emphasized.
Abstract: Laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS) has become a very popular analytical method in the last decade in view of some of its unique features such as applicability to any type of sample, practically no sample preparation, remote sensing capability, and speed of analysis The technique has a remarkably wide applicability in many fields, and the number of applications is still growing From an analytical point of view, the quantitative aspects of LIBS may be considered its Achilles' heel, first due to the complex nature of the laser–sample interaction processes, which depend upon both the laser characteristics and the sample material properties, and second due to the plasma–particle interaction processes, which are space and time dependent Together, these may cause undesirable matrix effects Ways of alleviating these problems rely upon the description of the plasma excitation-ionization processes through the use of classical equilibrium relations and therefore on the assumption that the laser-induced

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