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LASER INDUCED BREAKDOWN SPECTROSCOPY FOR DETECTION OF ORGANIC RESIDUES: IMPACT OF AMBIENT ATMOSPHERE AND LASER PARAMETERS
| Title: | LASER INDUCED BREAKDOWN SPECTROSCOPY FOR DETECTION OF ORGANIC RESIDUES: IMPACT OF AMBIENT ATMOSPHERE AND LASER PARAMETERS. |
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| Name(s): |
Brown, Christopher, Author Richardson, Martin, Committee Chair University of Central Florida, Degree Grantor |
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| Type of Resource: | text | |
| Date Issued: | 2011 | |
| Publisher: | University of Central Florida | |
| Language(s): | English | |
| Abstract/Description: | Laser Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy (LIBS) is showing great potential as an atomic analytical technique. With its ability to rapidly analyze all forms of matter, with little-to-no sample preparation, LIBS has many advantages over conventional atomic emission spectroscopy techniques. With the maturation of the technologies that make LIBS possible, there has been a growing movement to implement LIBS in portable analyzers for field applications. In particular, LIBS has long been considered the front-runner in the drive for stand-off detection of trace deposits of explosives. Thus there is a need for a better understanding of the relevant processes that are responsible for the LIBS signature and their relationships to the different system parameters that are helping to improve LIBS as a sensing technology. This study explores the use of LIBS as a method to detect random trace amounts of specific organic materials deposited on organic or non-metallic surfaces. This requirement forces the limitation of single-shot signal analysis. This study is both experimental and theoretical, with a sizeable component addressing data analysis using principal components analysis to reduce the dimensionality of the data, and quadratic discriminant analysis to classify the data. In addition, the alternative approach of 'target factor analysis' was employed to improve detection of organic residues on organic substrates. Finally, a new method of characterizing the laser-induced plasma of organics, which should lead to improved data collection and analysis, is introduced. The comparison between modeled and experimental measurements of plasma temperatures and electronic density is discussed in order to improve the present models of low-temperature laser induced plasmas. | |
| Identifier: | CFE0003708 (IID), ucf:48843 (fedora) | |
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2011-05-01 Ph.D. Sciences, Department of Physics Masters This record was generated from author submitted information. |
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| Subject(s): |
Laser Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy Organic Analysis Chemometrics Principal Component Analysis Quadratic Discriminant Analysis Target Factor Analysis Laser Spectroscopy Plasma Modeling Explosive Detection Plasma Physics |
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| Persistent Link to This Record: | http://purl.flvc.org/ucf/fd/CFE0003708 | |
| Restrictions on Access: | campus 2014-04-01 | |
| Host Institution: | UCF |
