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Some properties of a microwave boosted glow discharge source using neon as the operating gas
1Institut für Spektrochemie und Angewandte Spektroskopie (ISAS), Bunsen-Kirchhoff-Strasse 11, D-44139, Dortmund, Germany.
Abstract:
The use of neon as the operating gas for the analysis of aluminium samples with the microwave boosted glow discharge source has been studied. A new type of anode tube allowed the gas to enter the source near the sample surface so that more material was transported into the discharge. Erosion rates have been measured under conditions optimised for high line-to-background ratios and found to be lower than with argon (9 and 21 n/s, respectively). Despite the lower erosion rate the detection limits measured for a number of elements in aluminium are in the range 0.02-1 microg/g and comparable to those obtained with argon as the operating gas.
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