Journal
APPLIED SPECTROSCOPY
Volume 71, Issue 8, Pages 1982-1989Publisher
SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC
DOI: 10.1177/0003702817699410
Keywords
Calibration-free laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy; CF-LIBS; self-absorption; Saha-Boltzmann; Stark broadening; standard reference line
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [61505223, 11075184]
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In this work, calibration-free laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy (CF-LIBS) is used to analyze a certified stainless steel sample. Due to self-absorption of the spectral lines from the major element Fe and the sparse lines of trace elements, it is usually not easy to construct the Boltzmann plots of all species. A standard reference line method is proposed here to solve this difficulty under the assumption of local thermodynamic equilibrium so that the same temperature value for all elements present into the plasma can be considered. Based on the concentration and rich spectral lines of Fe, the Stark broadening of Fe(I) 381.584nm and Saha-Boltzmann plots of this element are used to calculate the electron density and the plasma temperature, respectively. In order to determine the plasma temperature accurately, which is seriously affected by self-absorption, a pre-selection procedure for eliminating those spectral lines with strong self-absorption is employed. Then, one spectral line of each element is selected to calculate its corresponding concentration. The results from the standard reference lines with and without self-absorption of Fe are compared. This method allows us to measure trace element content and effectively avoid the adverse effects due to self-absorption.
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