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Feasibility of depth profiling of Zn-based coatings by laser ablation inductively coupled plasma optical emission and mass spectrometry using infrared Nd:YAG and ArF* lasers

Authors

HRDLIČKA Aleš OTRUBA Vítězslav NOVOTNÝ Karel GÜNTHER Detlef KANICKÝ Viktor

Year of publication 2005
Type Article in Periodical
Magazine / Source Spectrochimica Acta Part B: Atomic Spectroscopy
MU Faculty or unit

Faculty of Science

Citation
Web http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B6THN-4FS23CT-1&_user=835458&_handle=V-WA-A-W-WW-MsSAYWA-UUA-U-AAAEBZVUDV-AAAZEVVYDV-AWZCWAZAD-WW-U&_fmt=full&_coverDate=03%2F31%2F2005&_rdoc=7&_orig=browse&_srch=%23toc%235287%232005%23999399996%2
Field Inorganic chemistry
Keywords Laser ablation; Inductively coupled plasma; Atomic emission spectrometry; Mass spectrometry; Depth profiling; Zinc coated sheet
Description The feasibility of depth profiling of zinc-coated iron sheets by laser ablation (LA) was studied using an Nd:YAG laser (1064 nm) with inductively coupled plasma optical emission spectrometry (ICP-OES), and an excimer ArF* laser (193 nm) with a beam homogenizer. The latter was coupled to an ICP with mass spectrometry (ICP-MS). Fixed-spot ablation was applied. Both LA systems were capable of providing depth profiles that approach the profiles obtained by glow discharge optical emission spectroscopy (GD-OES) and electron probe X-ray microanalysis (EPXMA). For Nd:YAG laser an artefact consisting in zinc depth profile signal tailing appeared, enlarging thus erroneously diffusional coating-substrate interface profile. However, the ArF* system partially reduced but not suppressed that phenomenon. For both LA systems the Fe signal from the substrate increased with depth as expected and reached a plateau. The depth resolution (depth range corresponding to 84-16% change in the full signal) achieved was several micrometers. Ablation rate was found to depend on ablation spot area at constant irradiance. Consequently, ablated volume per shot dependence on pulse energy exhibits deviation from linear course.
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