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1. Principle, features and positioning
1.1 Principle
LIBS (Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy) was developed in 1963 by a team from the French Ceramics Society , and was the first application of lasers, which were introduced in 1960. It remained a relatively unexplored field of research, however, until lasers gained sufficient performance to meet the demands of spectrochemical analysis. It was in the 1980s that LIBS experienced a revival of interest,...
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Principle, features and positioning
Physical concepts
Bibliography
Digital media
Atomic emission line database http://physics.nist.gov/PhysRefData/Handbook/periodictable.htmhttp://physics.nist.gov/PhysRefData/ASD/lines_form.html
Websites
LinkedIn Group on LIBS http://www.linkedin.com
LIBS Club of the French Optical Society http://www.libs-france.com/
ChemCam team (LIBS instrument on the Curiosity rover) http://www.msl-chemcam.com/
...Events
LIBS: biennial international congress (even-numbered years)
EMSLIBS (Euro-Mediterannean symposium on LIBS): biennial international congress (odd-numbered years)
Journées LIBS France: two-day French LIBS conference/workshop, held every one to two years http://libs-france.com/
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