Identification heavy metal pollution in biological samples around cement plant in Aceh, Indonesia using Laser Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy ( LIBS)

Laser Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy (LIBS)

Subsurface Heavy-Metal Detection with the use of a Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy (LIBS) Penetrometer System

U.S. Army Engineer Waterways Experiment Station (WES) investigators have designed, fabricated, and demonstrated a cone penetrometer sensor for subsurface in situ field screening based on LIBS. The LIBS probe (patent pending) presented here is one of a suite of contaminant and geophysical probes developed by the WES Site Characterization and Analysis Penetrometer System (SCAPS) program. The LIBS...

Analysis of Wood Samples from a Crime Scene using Laser - Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy ( LIBS

On 08 April 2004, the Laboratory of Tree-Ring Science in the Department of Geography, University of Tennessee, received 14 logs from Larry R. Smart, Criminal Investigation Section, Office of the Sherriff, Collin County, Texas. Ten logs numbered 2600 to 2609 were retrieved from a crime scene. Four logs were retrieved from the scene of a gathering attended by the suspect. These logs are numbered ...

Measuring total soil carbon with laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS).

Improving estimates of carbon inventories in soils is currently hindered by lack of a rapid analysis method for total soil carbon. A rapid, accurate, and precise method that could be used in the field would be a significant benefit to researchers investigating carbon cycling in soils and dynamics of soil carbon in global change processes. We tested a new analysis method for predicting total soi...

Remote Laser - induced Breakdown Spectroscopy ( LIBS ) Analysis of Hydrated Sulfates

Introduction: One of the most promising of instruments selected for the upcoming Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) mission for analyzing Martian rocks is the remote Laser-Induced Breakdown Spec-troscopy (LIBS) on the ChemCam instrument package. The LIBS technique involves focusing a laser pulse beam at a distant target with sufficiently high energy that a plasma is made, reducing a small spot on th...