TY - JOUR A1 - Gornushkin, Igor B. A1 - Shabanov, Sergej V. A1 - Merk, Sven A1 - Tognoni, E. A1 - Panne, Ulrich T1 - Effects of non-uniformity of laser induced plasma on plasma temperature and concentrations determined by the Boltzmann plot method: implications from plasma modeling PY - 2010 DO - https://doi.org/10.1039/C0JA00016G SN - 0267-9477 SN - 1364-5544 VL - 25 SP - 1643 EP - 1653 PB - Royal Society of Chemistry CY - London AN - OPUS4-22942 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Tognoni, E. A1 - Cristoforetti, G. A1 - Legnaioli, S. A1 - Palleschi, V. A1 - Salvetti, A. A1 - Müller, Maike A1 - Panne, Ulrich A1 - Gomushkin, I. T1 - A numerical study of expected accuracy and precision in Calibration-Free Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy in the assumption of ideal analytical plasma N2 - Calibration-Free Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy (CF-LIBS) has been proposed several years ago as an approach for quantitative analysis of Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy spectra. Recently developed refinement of the spectral processing method is described in the present work. Accurate quantitative results have been demonstrated for several metallic alloys. However, the degree of accuracy that can be achieved with Calibration-Free Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy analysis of generic samples still needs to be thoroughly investigated. The authors have undertaken a systematic study of errors and biasing factors affecting the calculation in the Calibration-Free Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy spectra processing. These factors may be classified in three main groups: 1) experimental aberrations (intensity fluctuations and inaccuracy in the correction for spectral efficiency of a detection system), 2) inaccuracy in theoretical parameters used for calculations (Stark broadening coefficients and partition functions) and 3) plasma non-ideality (departure from thermal equilibrium, spatial and temporal inhomogeneities, optical thickness, etc.). In this study, the effects of experimental aberrations and accuracy of spectral data were investigated, assuming that the analytical plasma is ideal. Departure of the plasma conditions from ideality will be the object of future work. The current study was based on numerical simulation. Two kinds of metallic alloys, iron-based and aluminum-based, were studied. The relative weight of the error contributions was found to depend on the sample composition. For the here-investigated samples, the experimental aberrations contribute to the overall uncertainty on the quantitative results more than theoretical parameters. The described simulation method can be applied to the Calibration-Free Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy analysis of any other kind of sample. KW - LIBS KW - Quantitative analysis KW - Standard-less analysis KW - Accuracy KW - Precision PY - 2007 DO - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sab.2007.10.005 SN - 0584-8547 SN - 0038-6987 VL - 62 IS - 12 SP - 1287 EP - 1302 PB - Elsevier CY - Amsterdam AN - OPUS4-16566 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER -