A Comparison of Radial and Axial View Plasma

The first paper describing axial ICP was published in the mid 1970's (1). However, many years passed before the first commercial ICP emerged in 1993, followed by another ICP about a year later. The latter became an instant success. The race had started for lower detection limits with claims of 10 times better detection limits for most elements using an axial ICP. But as the atomic spectroscopy community would find out, an axial plasma alone was not the singular solution for every sample.