Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of contributors
- Preface
- 1 History and fundamentals of LIBS
- 2 Plasma morphology
- 3 From sample to signal in laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy: a complex route to quantitative analysis
- 4 Laser-induced breakdown in gases: experiments and simulation
- 5 Analysis of aerosols by LIBS
- 6 Chemical imaging of surfaces using LIBS
- 7 Biomedical applications of LIBS
- 8 LIBS for the analysis of pharmaceutical materials
- 9 Cultural heritage applications of LIBS
- 10 Civilian and military environmental contamination studies using LIBS
- 11 Industrial applications of LIBS
- 12 Resonance-enhanced LIBS
- 13 Short-pulse LIBS: fundamentals and applications
- 14 High-speed, high-resolution LIBS using diode-pumped solid-state lasers
- 15 Laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy using sequential laser pulses
- 16 Micro LIBS technique
- 17 New spectral detectors for LIBS
- 18 Spark-induced breakdown spectroscopy: a description of an electrically generated LIBS-like process for elemental analysis of airborne particulates and solid samples
- Index
- References
9 - Cultural heritage applications of LIBS
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 08 August 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of contributors
- Preface
- 1 History and fundamentals of LIBS
- 2 Plasma morphology
- 3 From sample to signal in laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy: a complex route to quantitative analysis
- 4 Laser-induced breakdown in gases: experiments and simulation
- 5 Analysis of aerosols by LIBS
- 6 Chemical imaging of surfaces using LIBS
- 7 Biomedical applications of LIBS
- 8 LIBS for the analysis of pharmaceutical materials
- 9 Cultural heritage applications of LIBS
- 10 Civilian and military environmental contamination studies using LIBS
- 11 Industrial applications of LIBS
- 12 Resonance-enhanced LIBS
- 13 Short-pulse LIBS: fundamentals and applications
- 14 High-speed, high-resolution LIBS using diode-pumped solid-state lasers
- 15 Laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy using sequential laser pulses
- 16 Micro LIBS technique
- 17 New spectral detectors for LIBS
- 18 Spark-induced breakdown spectroscopy: a description of an electrically generated LIBS-like process for elemental analysis of airborne particulates and solid samples
- Index
- References
Summary
Introduction
Laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS) has emerged in the past ten years as a very promising technique for the analysis and characterization of a broad variety of objects of cultural heritage including painted artworks, icons, polychromes, pottery, sculpture, metal, glass, and stone objects. The analytical capabilities of LIBS with respect to its applications in the fields of archaeology, art history, and art conservation are discussed. Basic instrumentation requirements are briefly described followed by an analysis of critical parameters and methodological approaches. Illuminating examples from the application of LIBS in specific problems are presented demonstrating the potential of the technique in becoming a useful analytical tool for the characterization of works of art and archaeological objects.
The aim of this chapter is to provide an overview of the application of LIBS to the characterization of objects of cultural heritage. The basic principles and analytical features of the technique will be presented in relation to the specific fields of application and several illuminating examples will be given.
Following a brief introduction to the current use of physical and chemical techniques for addressing analytical questions and problems in the fields of art history, conservation, and archaeology, the basic principles of LIBS and its principal analytical advantages, within the context of the analysis of objects of art, are presented. A basic presentation of instrumentation issues is given, followed by a discussion of critical experimental parameters and methodological approaches that differ according to the analytical problem at hand.
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- Laser Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy , pp. 332 - 367Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2006
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