TY - JOUR A1 - Schiel, D. A1 - Rienitz, O. A1 - Jährling, R. A1 - Güttler, B. A1 - Matschat, Ralf A1 - Scharf, Holger A1 - Birkhahn, Jürgen A1 - Labarraque, G. A1 - Fisicaro, P. A1 - Borchers, U. A1 - Schwesig, D. T1 - Metrological concept for comparable measurement results under the European water framework directive: demonstration of its applicability in elemental analysis N2 - Within the scope of a project of the 'European Association of National Metrology Institutes' (EURAMET), a European metrological dissemination System (network) providing traceable reference values assigned to matrix materials for validation purposes is described and put to the test. It enables testing laboratories (TL) to obtain comparable results for measurements under the 'EU Water Framework Directive 2000/60/EC' (WFD) and thus, to comply with a core requirement of this very directive. The dissemination system is characterized by the fact that it is available to all laboratories throughout Europe which intend to perform measurements in the context of the WFD and that it can ensure sustainable metrological traceability to the International System of Units (SI) as a reference point for the measurement results. This Dissemination system is set up in a hierarchical manner and links up the level of the national metrology institutes (NMI) with that of the TLs via an intermediate level of calibration laboratories (CL) by comparison measurements. The CLs are expert laboratories with respect to the measurement of the analytes considered here (within the project, the CLs are called potential calibration laboratories (PCL)) and are additionally involved in the organization of comparison measurements within the scope of regional quality assurance (QA) systems. Three comparison measurements have been performed to support the approach. A total of about 130 laboratories participated in this exercise with the focus on the measurement of the priority substances Pb, Cd, Hg, and Ni defined in the WFD. The elemental concentrations in the water samples roughly corresponded to one of the established environmental quality standards (EQS), the annual average concentration (AA-EQS), which is defined in the daughter Directive 2008/105/EC of the WFD. It turned out that a significant number of TLs still need to improve their measurement methods in order to be able to fulfill the Minimum requirements of the WFD, in particular, with regard to the elements Cd and Hg probably due to their low EQS values. Furthermore, it became obvious that the hierarchical Dissemination system suggested here actually corresponds to the measuring capabilities of the three participating Groups (NMIs, PCLs, and TLs). KW - Metrology KW - Metrological traceability KW - Comparability KW - Elemental analysis KW - Water framework directive PY - 2011 DO - https://doi.org/10.1007/s00769-011-0792-z SN - 0949-1775 SN - 1432-0517 VL - 16 IS - 10 SP - 489 EP - 498 PB - Springer CY - Berlin AN - OPUS4-24485 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Kipphardt, Heinrich A1 - Dudzus, Thomas A1 - Meier, Klaus A1 - Recknagel, Sebastian A1 - Hedrich, Martina A1 - Matschat, Ralf T1 - Measurement of oxygen and nitrogen in high purity metals used as national standards for elemental analysis in Germany by classical carrier gas hot extraction (HE) and HE after activation with photons N2 - The special importance of the analysis of non-metals in high purity metals, which will serve as national standards for elemental analysis in Germany, is illustrated for oxygen and nitrogen. The typical range of the mass fraction of oxygen and nitrogen in these materials is below 10.MU.g/g, often close to 1.MU.g/g. The two methods applied at BAM for these measurements are classical carrier gas hot extraction (HE) and carrier gas hot extraction after activation with photons (PAA-HE). The approach, the methods and their advantages and limitations are discussed. Comparative results from the measurement of oxygen and nitrogen in Cu, Fe, Ga, Pb, Sn and W are presented. (author abst.) T2 - 8th International Conference on Ultra-High Purity Base Metals (UHPM-2001) CY - Berlin, Germany DA - 2001-06-25 KW - Oxygen determination KW - Nitrogen determination KW - High purity metals KW - Carrier gas hot extraction KW - Photon activation analysis PY - 2002 DO - https://doi.org/10.2320/matertrans.43.98 SN - 1345-9678 SN - 1347-5320 VL - 43 IS - 2 SP - 98 EP - 100 PB - Japan Institute of Metals CY - Sendai AN - OPUS4-1361 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Kipphardt, Heinrich A1 - Kuxenko, Sandra A1 - Matschat, Ralf T1 - Auf dem Weg zu rückführbaren Standards für die Elementanalytik - Element-Spurenanalyse in Reinstkupfer KW - Reinstkupfer KW - Elementspurenanalytik KW - Standards KW - Rückführbarkeit PY - 2002 SN - 0016-3538 IS - 6 SP - 718 EP - 720 PB - GIT-Verlag CY - Darmstadt AN - OPUS4-1452 LA - deu AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Kipphardt, Heinrich A1 - Matschat, Ralf T1 - Development of SI-traceable standards of high metrological quality for chemical analysis of the elements T2 - 12th Euroanalysis ; 12th European Conference on Analytical Chemistry CY - Dortmund, Germany DA - 2002-09-08 PY - 2002 SN - 1618-2642 SN - 1618-2650 VL - 375 IS - 8, P1-018 SP - 198 PB - Springer CY - Berlin AN - OPUS4-1630 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Kipphardt, Heinrich A1 - Matschat, Ralf T1 - Development of SI-traceable standards of high metrological quality for chemical analysis of the elements T2 - Towards an integrated infrastructure for measurements CY - Warszawa, Poland DA - 2002-06-18 PY - 2002 SP - 66 EP - 67 AN - OPUS4-1631 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Matschat, Ralf A1 - Kipphardt, Heinrich T1 - BAM System of Primary Pure Elements - Aim and Current State T2 - CCQM Annual Meeting of Inorganic Working Group CY - Ottawa, Canada DA - 2002-10-09 PY - 2002 AN - OPUS4-1603 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Kipphardt, Heinrich A1 - Dudzus, Thomas A1 - Meier, Klaus A1 - Recknagel, Sebastian A1 - Hedrich, Martina A1 - Matschat, Ralf T1 - The measurement of O and N by classical carrier gas hot extraction (HE) - Carrier gas hot extraction after activation with photons T2 - CENAM CY - Mexico City, Mexico DA - 2002-01-28 PY - 2002 AN - OPUS4-1610 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Kipphardt, Heinrich A1 - Matschat, Ralf T1 - Preparation of primary calibration substances - method development for trace analysis T2 - CENAM CY - Mexico City, Mexico DA - 2002-01-28 PY - 2002 AN - OPUS4-1611 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Matschat, Ralf A1 - Czerwensky, Michael A1 - Pattberg, S. A1 - Heinrich, Hans-Joachim A1 - Tutschku, S. T1 - High Purity Metals as Primary Calibration Materials for Elemental Analysis - Their Importance and Their Certification N2 - The Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung, BAM (Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing) continues to establish a system of primary reference materials to meet the demands of metrological traceability. The materials act as national standards in the field of elemental analysis. For all elements of the periodic table -excepting those that are gases or radioactive- two different kinds of reference materials are being certified. The substances are of very high purity and of defined stoichiometry. Pure elements and metals are used as far as possible. They are certified by determining the trace contents of most elements of the periodic table at very low levels using different trace element analysis methods. Recent application of these methods is described and examples of the certification of some pure metals (copper, iron and lead) are given. (author abst.) T2 - 8th International Conference on Ultra-High Purity Base Metals (UHPM-2001) CY - Berlin, Germany DA - 2001-06-25 KW - Trace elemental analysis KW - Atomic spectrometry KW - High purity metals KW - Certification KW - Primary calibration materials KW - Reference materials KW - National standards PY - 2002 UR - https://www.researchgate.net/publication/235927297_High_purity_metals_as_primary_calibration_materials_for_elemental_analysis_-_Their_importance_and_their_certification SN - 1345-9678 SN - 1347-5320 VL - 43 IS - 2 SP - 90 EP - 97 PB - Japan Institute of Metals CY - Sendai AN - OPUS4-1600 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Matschat, Ralf A1 - Kipphardt, Heinrich A1 - Recknagel, Sebastian A1 - Noack, Siegfried ED - Abiko, K. ED - Takaki, S. T1 - Activities of Division "Inorganic Chemical Analysis; Reference Materials" of BAM in the Field of Analysis of Metals T2 - 9th international conference on ultrahigh-purity base metals CY - Sendai, Japan DA - 2002-10-14 PY - 2002 SP - 297 EP - 302 CY - Sendai AN - OPUS4-1602 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - GEN A1 - Matschat, Ralf A1 - Dudzus, Thomas A1 - Meier, Klaus A1 - Recknagel, Sebastian A1 - Kipphardt, Heinrich A1 - Hedrich, Martina ED - Hirschfeld, D. T1 - Messung von Sauerstoff und Stickstoff mit klassischer Trägergasheißextraktion und Trägergasheißextraktion nach Aktivierung mit Photonen für die nationalen primären Kalibriernormale T2 - 8. Symposium Nichtmetalle in Metallen - NIM ; 8. Tagung des Gemeinschaftsausschusses "Nichtmetalle in Metallen" der GDMB CY - Münster, Deutschland DA - 2000-03-16 PY - 2000 SN - 3-9806913-1-4 SP - 19 EP - 27 PB - GDMB, Ges. für Bergbau, Metallurgie, Rohstoff- und Umwelttechnik CY - Clausthal-Zellerfeld AN - OPUS4-915 LA - deu AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Gopala, Anil A1 - Kipphardt, Heinrich A1 - Matschat, Ralf A1 - Panne, Ulrich T1 - Process methodology for the small scale production of m6N5 purity zinc using a resistance heated vacuum distillation system N2 - Ultra high purity Zn (m6N5) was obtained through triple vacuum distillation using an m4N5 Zn as input material. High-volatile impurities were removed from the zinc matrix by vacuum evaporation, while traces having lower volatility than the matrix remained in the residual material after finishing of the entire purification process. The time required for the removal of the main high-volatile impurity (Cd) was monitored using a connected gas source mass spectrometer. During distillation the Zn vapor of the distillate was condensed on the cap of a glassy carbon crucible which was water cooled by a movable copper block. The temperatures were optimized for the removal of the volatiles and for the distillation process using vapor pressure data. High resolution glow discharge mass spectrometry was applied for the analysis and purity evaluation of the distilled and input zinc. The analysis confirmed the reduction of the metallic impurities from 43 mg kg-1 to 0.5 mg kg-1 (m6N5) after three consecutive vacuum distillations. An increase in the grain size and a decrease in the micro-hardness were observed for the purified Zn material. KW - Ultra high purity KW - Vacuum distillation KW - High resolution glow discharge mass KW - Spectrometry KW - Micro-hardness KW - Zinc KW - Purification PY - 2010 DO - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matchemphys.2010.02.080 SN - 0254-0584 VL - 122 IS - 1 SP - 151 EP - 155 PB - Elsevier CY - Amsterdam AN - OPUS4-21127 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Matschat, Ralf A1 - Haßler, J. A1 - Traub, Heike A1 - Dette, Angelika T1 - Multielement trace determination in SiC powders: assessment of interlaboratory comparisons aimed at the validation and standardization of analytical procedures with direct solid sampling based on ETV ICP OES and DC arc OES N2 - The members of the committee NMP 264 Chemical analysis of non-oxidic raw and basic materials of the German Standards Institute (DIN) have organized two interlaboratory comparisons for multielement determination of trace elements in silicon carbide (SiC) powders via direct solid sampling methods. One of the interlaboratory comparisons was based on the application of inductively coupled plasma optical emission spectrometry with electrothermal vaporization (ETV ICP OES), and the other on the application of optical emission spectrometry with direct current arc (DC arc OES). The interlaboratory comparisons were organized and performed in the framework of the development of two standards related to the determination of mass fractions of metallic impurities in powders and grain sizes of ceramic raw and basic materials by both methods. SiC powders were used as typical examples of this category of material. The aim of the interlaboratory comparisons was to determine the repeatability and reproducibility of both analytical methods to be standardized. This was an important contribution to the practical applicability of both draft standards. Eight laboratories participated in the interlaboratory comparison with ETV ICP OES and nine in the interlaboratory comparison with DC arc OES. Ten analytes were investigated by ETV ICP OES and eleven by DC arc OES. Six different SiC powders were used for the calibration. The mass fractions of their relevant trace elements were determined after wet chemical digestion. All participants followed the analytical requirements described in the draft standards. In the calculation process, three of the calibration materials were used successively as analytical samples. This was managed in the following manner: the material that had just been used as the analytical sample was excluded from the calibration, so the five other materials were used to establish the calibration plot. The results from the interlaboratory comparisons were summarized and used to determine the repeatability and the reproducibility (expressed as standard deviations) of both methods. The calculation was carried out according to the related standard. The results are specified and discussed in this paper, as are the optimized analytical conditions determined and used by the authors of this paper. For both methods, the repeatability relative standard deviations were <25%, usually ~10%, and the reproducibility relative standard deviations were <35%, usually ~15%. These results were regarded as satifactory for both methods intended for rapid analysis of materials for which decomposition is difficult and time-consuming. Also described are some results from an interlaboratory comparison used to certify one of the materials that had been previously used for validation in both interlaboratory comparisons. Thirty laboratories (from eight countries) participated in this interlaboratory comparison for certification. As examples, accepted results are shown from laboratories that used ETV ICP OES or DC arc OES and had performed calibrations by using solutions or oxides, respectively. The certified mass fractions of the certified reference materials were also compared with the mass fractions determined in the interlaboratory comparisons performed within the framework of method standardization. Good agreement was found for most of the analytes. KW - Inductively coupled plasma optical emission spectrometry KW - Electrothermal vaporization KW - ETV ICP OES KW - Direct current optical emission spectrometry KW - DC arc OES KW - Direct solid sampling technique KW - Silicon carbide powder KW - Method validation KW - Method standardization KW - Direkte Feststoffanalytik KW - Normung KW - Methodenvalidierung KW - Ringversuche KW - Siliciumcarbid PY - 2005 DO - https://doi.org/10.1007/s00216-005-3415-x SN - 1618-2642 SN - 1618-2650 VL - 383 IS - 7-8 SP - 1060 EP - 1074 PB - Springer CY - Berlin AN - OPUS4-10890 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Matschat, Ralf T1 - Investigation of a transparent glass ceramics concerning the identification as a strange material in glass cullet T2 - Meeting international Commission in Glas (ICG) - Technical Committee 2 (TC-2) CY - Berlin, Germany DA - 2006-04-27 PY - 2006 AN - OPUS4-12383 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Lange, Britta A1 - Recknagel, Sebastian A1 - Czerwensky, Michael A1 - Matschat, Ralf A1 - Michaelis, Matthias A1 - Peplinski, Burkhard A1 - Panne, Ulrich T1 - Analysis of pure copper - a comparison of analytical mehods KW - Pure copper KW - Elemental analytical mehtods KW - Reference material KW - Sample dissolution PY - 2008 DO - https://doi.org/10.1007/s00604-007-0849-1 SN - 0026-3672 SN - 1436-5073 VL - 160 SP - 97 EP - 107 PB - Springer CY - Wien AN - OPUS4-17565 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Kipphardt, Heinrich A1 - Matschat, Ralf A1 - Panne, Ulrich T1 - Metrology in chemistry - a rocky road N2 - The application of metrology in chemical analysis is today hampered by psychological and practical barriers. The argumentation is based on the differences in physical and chemical metrology, which arises mainly from the objects of the measurements. The term “measurement” is discussed in the realm of analytical chemistry with a special focus on the inherent relation between chemical identification and determination as well as the consequent use of the concept of traceability and uncertainty. KW - Metrology in chemistry KW - Chemical analysis KW - Traceability KW - Uncertainty PY - 2008 DO - https://doi.org/10.1007/s00604-007-0909-6 SN - 0026-3672 SN - 1436-5073 VL - 162 IS - 1-2 SP - 35 EP - 41 PB - Springer CY - Wien AN - OPUS4-17727 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Gusarova, Tamara A1 - Hofmann, T. A1 - Kipphardt, Heinrich A1 - Venzago, C. A1 - Matschat, Ralf A1 - Panne, Ulrich T1 - Comparison of different calibration strategies for the analysis of zinc and other pure metals by using the GD-MS instruments VG 9000 and element GD N2 - Synthetic pressed metal powder standards doped with standard solutions were used for the calibration of both commercially available high resolution GD-MS instruments Element GD and VG 9000 for zinc matrix. Different quantification procedures (IBR, Standard RSF, matrix matched RSF from the calibration with CRMs and use of doped synthetic standards) are compared using zinc matrix as an example, whereas the calibration with doped pellets turned out to be the best quantification technique for high-purity materials. The applicability of the Standard RSF concept is scrutinised. In this context, RSF values for several Matrices (Co, Cu, Fe, In and Zn) are reported additionally. PY - 2010 DO - https://doi.org/10.1039/b921649a SN - 0267-9477 SN - 1364-5544 VL - 25 SP - 314 EP - 321 PB - Royal Society of Chemistry CY - London AN - OPUS4-22376 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Matschat, Ralf T1 - Rückführbare Messungen zur Multielement-Spurenbestimmung metallischer und nichtmetallischer Analyten in Reinstmetallen mit dem Glimmentladungs-Massenspektrometer Element-GD T2 - Das 14. Deutsche GDS-Anwendertreffen CY - Berlin, Germany DA - 2008-04-17 PY - 2008 AN - OPUS4-17726 LA - deu AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Gopala, Anil A1 - Kipphardt, Heinrich A1 - Matschat, Ralf A1 - Panne, Ulrich T1 - Use of mass spectrometric detection as a versatile process monitoring tool: reduction patterns in a milled ZnO/Al mixture N2 - Mass spectrometric detection can play a prominent role in the assessment of different reactions occurring at varied temperatures in a milled ZnO/Al mixture. This is the first time that online mass spectrometric information was used as a tool for monitoring and understanding the chemical reduction process mechanism. We have observed four different types of reaction taking place: (1) distillation of Zn metal, (2) reduction of ZnO by activated Al, (3) melting of Al and finally (4) reduction of ZnO by inactivated Al. The experimental conditions and results observed by QMS were supported with literature data and physical measurement data from X-Ray Diffraction (XRD) which gave us an idea about the complex reaction cascade which occurred during the formation of the zinc metal. PY - 2010 DO - https://doi.org/10.1039/c0ay00057d SN - 1759-9660 SN - 1759-9679 VL - 2 SP - 451 EP - 454 PB - RSC Publ. CY - Cambridge AN - OPUS4-21291 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Traub, Heike A1 - Wälle, M. A1 - Koch, J. A1 - Panne, Ulrich A1 - Matschat, Ralf A1 - Kipphardt, Heinrich A1 - Günther, D. T1 - Evaluation of different calibration strategies for the analysis of pure copper and zinc samples using femtosecond laser ablation ICP-MS N2 - Solution-doped metal powder pellets as well as aspirated liquids were used as calibration samples to analyze pure copper and zinc certified reference materials (CRMs) by femtosecond laser ablation ICP-MS. It was demonstrated that calibration by copper pellets resulted in relative deviations up to 20%, whereas fs-LA-ICP-MS among copper-based CRMs led to inaccuracies in the same range unless nominal mass fractions were chosen to be <3 mg/kg. Calibration by zinc pellets generally provided better accuracy. Depending on the analyte considered, deviations below 10% were obtained even for mass fractions close to the limit of quantification. Our data, therefore, indicate solution-doped metal powder pellets to be suitable as calibration samples for fs-LA-ICP-MS of metals. Furthermore, the utilization of liquid standards for calibration was found to result in stronger deviations of up to 50% for both copper and zinc samples which, in addition, turned out to be dependent on the plasma conditions. KW - Laser ablation KW - ICP-MS KW - Calibration KW - Copper KW - Zinc KW - Metal PY - 2009 DO - https://doi.org/10.1007/s00216-009-3061-9 SN - 1618-2642 SN - 1618-2650 VL - 395 IS - 5 SP - 1471 EP - 1480 PB - Springer CY - Berlin AN - OPUS4-20402 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Traub, Heike A1 - Czerwensky, Michael A1 - Matschat, Ralf A1 - Kipphardt, Heinrich A1 - Panne, Ulrich T1 - Different calibration strategies for the analysis of pure copper metal by nanosecond laser ablation inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry N2 - In this work, different calibration strategies for the determination of trace elements in pure copper metal by nanosecond laser ablation ICP-MS were investigated. In addition to certified reference materials (CRMs), pellets of doped copper powder were used for calibration. The micro homogeneity of the CRMs as well as the solution-doped pellets was sufficient to use them as calibration samples in combination with a laser spot size of 200 µm. In contrast, pellets doped with analytes in solid form showed a significant heterogeneity. For most of the investigated analytes and copper CRMs the measured mass fractions were within ± 20% of their certified values when other copper CRMs were used as calibration samples. When solution-doped powder pellets were used as calibration samples a systematic trend towards mass fractions below the certified values was observed for nearly all elements determined in the analysed CRMs. Thermal fractionation effects during the ablation of the solution-doped pellets were suspected as the extent of the fractionation depends on the irradiance, whereas fractionation is reduced at higher irradiance. PY - 2010 DO - https://doi.org/10.1039/b915564c SN - 0267-9477 SN - 1364-5544 VL - 25 IS - 5 SP - 690 EP - 696 PB - Royal Society of Chemistry CY - London AN - OPUS4-21195 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Matschat, Ralf T1 - Special new techniques of atomic spectrometric methods for trace analysis of high purity metals T2 - The 10th International Conference on Ultra-High-purity Metallic-Base Materials UHPM 2003 CY - Saint-Étienne, France DA - 2003-06-16 PY - 2003 AN - OPUS4-3717 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Matschat, Ralf T1 - Bewertung von Ringversuchen zur Validierung und Normung von direkten Feststoff-Analysenverfahren zur Multielement-Spurenbestimmung in SiC-Pulvern mit ETV ICP OES und DC Arc OES N2 - Siliciumcarbid (SiC) ist ein wichtiges technisches Material nicht nur in seinen klassischen Anwendungsbereichen, die auf seinen hervorragenden mechanischen Eigenschaften, insbesondere seiner großen Härte, und seinem besonderen thermischen Verhalten beruhen. Vielfache Anwendungen finden sich auch als Hochleistungskeramik, in der Halbleitertechnik, der Opto- und Mikroelektronik. Für seinen Gebrauch in den verschiedenen Anwendungsgebieten ist die Reinheit des Materials von großer Bedeutung. Die auf der Verwendung von Aufschlusslösungen basierende Analytik ist wegen des erforderlichen zeitaufwendigen Aufschlussverfahrens wenig effektiv. Für größere Analysenserien und für die schnellere Bereitstellung der Ergebnisse sind deshalb direkte Analysenverfahren mit Festprobentechnik von verschiedenen Autoren erprobt und eingesetzt worden. Um zu zuverlässigen und vergleichbaren analytischen Aussagen zu gelangen, sind für einen breiten Einsatz bei den Herstellern validierte und genormte Analysenverfahren erforderlich. Die vorgestellten Ergebnisse sind Bestandteil des Validierungs- und Normungsprozesses. Hierbei wurde für jede der beiden Feststoff-Analysenmethoden mit Multielementcharakter, die optische Emissionsspektrometrie mit induktiv gekoppeltem Plasma und elektrothermischer Verdampfung (ETV ICP OES) und die optische Emissionsspektrometrie mit Gleichstrombogenanregung (DC Arc OES), ein Ringversuch zur Multielement-Spurenbestimmung an sechs vorcharakterisierten Siliciumcarbidpulvern durchgeführt. An diesen Laborvergleichen beteiligten sich mit der ETV ICP OES acht und mit der DC Arc OES neun Laboratorien aus Industrieunternehmen, Forschungseinrichtungen und Universitäten. An jeder der sechs untersuchten Proben wurden sechs parallele Messungen ausgeführt, mit der ETV ICP OES für die Analyten Al, Ca, Cr, Cu, Fe, Mg, Ni, Ti, V und Zr und mit der DC Arc OES für die Analyten Al, B, Ca, Fe, Mg, Ni, Ti und Zr. Für drei der sechs Proben wurden die Gehalte aus den auf der Basis dieser Messungen bestimmten Kalibrierkurven ermittelt, wobei die jeweilige Probe nicht in die Kalibrierung einbezogen wurde. Aus den ermittelten Gehalten wurden nach DIN ISO 5725-2 die Wiederhol- und die Vergleichspräzision beider Analysenverfahren berechnet. Diese stellen wichtige Beiträge zur Verfahrensvalidierung und zur geplanten Normung im Rahmen des DIN NMP 264 "Chemische Analyse von nichtoxidischen keramischen Roh- und Werkstoffen" dar. Ein Eindruck über die Richtigkeit beider Analysenverfahren läßt sich durch Vergleich der Ergebnisse mit den durch rückführbare Messungen zuvor erhaltenen Werten gewinnen. Dabei ist zu beachten, dass diese auch für die Kalibrierung verwendeten Gehaltsangaben der sechs verschiedenen Kalibrierproben nicht in allen Fällen auf einer geraden oder monoton steigenden Kalibrierkurve liegen. Im Nachgang wurde außerdem von der BAM in Kooperation mit der GDMB und unter breiter internationaler Beteiligung eines der sechs SiC-Pulver als Referenzmaterial zertifiziert. Hierdurch wird die Zuverlässigkeit der Aussagen zur Richtigkeit noch weiter erhöht. Die Vergleichs- und die Wiederholpräzision werden als überwiegend gut eingeschätzt, die Richtigkeit als gut bis befriedigend; nur in wenigen Fällen treten größere systematische Abweichungen von den Referenzwerten auf. Damit werden beide Analysentechniken als geeignet zur schnellen Direktanalytik der nur schwer und zeitaufwendig aufzuschließenden Siliciumcarbidpulver bewertet. Im Beitrag wird außer auf die Ringversuche und ihre Auswertung auch auf methodische Besonderheiten beider direkten Feststoff-Analysenverfahren eingegangen. T2 - CANAS '05, Colloquium Analytische Atomspektroskopie CY - Freiberg, Germany DA - 2005-03-06 PY - 2005 AN - OPUS4-6253 LA - deu AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER -