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  • Analytical Chemistry
  • Materials Science
  • Spectroscopy

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  • Glow discharge optical emission spectrometry (GDOES) is vital for rapid, simultaneous multielemental analysis and nanometer-scale depth profiling of thin films.
  • Current GDOES methods face trade-offs between detection limits and depth resolution, and suffer from compromised sampling statistics for ultra-thin films.
  • Commercial GDOES instruments utilize slit-based dispersion, limiting light throughput for higher spectral resolution.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To introduce and evaluate a novel technique, glow discharge optical emission coded aperture spectrometry (GOCAS), for improved thin-film characterization.
  • To investigate the impact of coded aperture characteristics on spectral reconstruction fidelity.
  • To assess the performance of compressed sensing algorithms for spectral recovery in GOCAS.

Main Methods:

  • GOCAS employs a coded aperture (CA) with multiple thin slits at the spectrograph entrance to capture convoluted spectra.
  • Compressed sensing (CS) algorithms, including Shearlet enhanced snapshot compressive imaging (SeSCI)GPU, are used to recover deconvoluted spectra.
  • The study analyzed CA parameters (slit size, transmittance, number of slits) and CS algorithm performance, including robustness against noise.

Main Results:

  • Optimal CA performance was achieved with smaller slits, 50% transmittance, and wider apertures with more slits.
  • SeSCIGPU demonstrated superior performance among the CS algorithms evaluated.
  • GOCAS exhibited robustness against detector noise and achieved up to ~30x improved signal-to-noise ratio (S/N) and order-of-magnitude better limits of detection (LODs).

Conclusions:

  • GOCAS enables simultaneous high spectral resolution and high light throughput, overcoming limitations of traditional GDOES.
  • The technique provides significantly improved S/N and LODs at rapid acquisition times (sub-millisecond).
  • GOCAS shows transformative potential for the depth profiling analysis of nanostructured materials.