Publication detail

The use of zinc and iron emission lines in the depth profile analysis of zinc-coated steel

NOVOTNÝ, K. VACULIVIČ, T. GALIOVÁ, M. OTRUBA, V. KANICKÝ, V. KAISER, J. LIŠKA, M. SAMEK, O. MALINA, R. PÁLENÍKOVÁ, K.

English title

The use of zinc and iron emission lines in the depth profile analysis of zinc-coated steel

Type

Peer-reviewed article not indexed in WoS or Scopus

Language

en

Original abstract

In this study we report on the results of experiments devoted to the depth profile analysis of zinc-coated steel samples using the laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS) technique. The dependence of zinc and iron emissions in three ablation atmospheres (air, argon, helium) was measured using the fundamental wavelength (1064 nm) of the Nd:YAG laser. The highest possible depth resolution was achieved by optimizing the experimental parameters, such as the delay time (which affects the tailing of the zinc emission signal), focusing conditions, energy delivered to the sample, and choice of buffer gases. Current research indicates that there is a constant need to optimize these parameters so that reliable depthprofiling analysis can be performed.

Keywords in English

Laser-induced breakdown spectrometry (LIBS); Laser ablation; Coating; Depth profiling; Depth resolution

Released

2007-02-15

ISSN

0169-4332

Journal

APPLIED SURFACE SCIENCE

Volume

253

Number

2

Pages from–to

3834–3843

Pages count

10

BIBTEX


@article{BUT43558,
  author="NOVOTNÝ, K. and VACULIVIČ, T. and GALIOVÁ, M. and OTRUBA, V. and KANICKÝ, V. and KAISER, J. and LIŠKA, M. and SAMEK, O. and MALINA, R. and PÁLENÍKOVÁ, K.",
  title="The use of zinc and iron emission lines in the depth profile analysis of zinc-coated steel",
  journal="APPLIED SURFACE SCIENCE",
  year="2007",
  volume="253",
  number="2",
  pages="3834--3843",
  issn="0169-4332"
}