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Characterization of Industrial High-Strength Aluminum Alloys by Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy, With Special Emphasis on the Detection of Low Contents of Mg, Mn, Cr, Cu, Zn and Sensing of Molecular Diatomic Emission of AlO During Ablation

Version 1 : Received: 15 February 2024 / Approved: 16 February 2024 / Online: 16 February 2024 (07:01:12 CET)

How to cite: Rytchkova, S.; Lévesque, L. Characterization of Industrial High-Strength Aluminum Alloys by Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy, With Special Emphasis on the Detection of Low Contents of Mg, Mn, Cr, Cu, Zn and Sensing of Molecular Diatomic Emission of AlO During Ablation. Preprints 2024, 2024020890. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202402.0890.v1 Rytchkova, S.; Lévesque, L. Characterization of Industrial High-Strength Aluminum Alloys by Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy, With Special Emphasis on the Detection of Low Contents of Mg, Mn, Cr, Cu, Zn and Sensing of Molecular Diatomic Emission of AlO During Ablation. Preprints 2024, 2024020890. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202402.0890.v1

Abstract

The wealth of data obtained during the past 20 years using Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy (LIBS) indicates that the technique is very promising to detect small chemical contents of alloying elements. The potential of LIBS was looked more seriously during the past two decades or so as more data were obtained on Aluminum and steel to study the phenomena in the condition of local thermodynamic equilibrium and time-delay between a Q-switch laser and an intensified CCD camera. Since the past decade, some data on compounds were also shown to be useful in determining small concentrations of harmful elements. This manuscript is intended to show that the technique of LIBS performance is very promising in fields such as micro-machining, in alloying element analysis, surface cleaning and environmental applications even with lightweight spectrometers having a relatively low resolution, which can potentially be air-borne.

Keywords

Laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS); Aluminum (Al); Magnesium (Mg); Manganese (Mn); Chromium (Cr); Copper (Cu); Zinc (Zn); Aluminum Monoxide (AlO).

Subject

Physical Sciences, Optics and Photonics

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