Atomic Spectroscopy

摘要

Methodological developments in atomic spectrometry are related to new techniques in optical spectrometry as well as in elemental mass spectrometry especially, as the sources used in atomic spectrometry are prominent sources of electromagnetic radiation, absorption reservoirs for atomic absorption, and ion sources for elemental mass spectrometry. Developments in the field are related to the sources themselves and their improvement and optimization as well as with the different types of spectrometers and detectors and the different ways for optimal sampling of the analytes. Improvements in the different fields have regularly been published in the journals Analytical Chemistry, Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry, Analytical Sciences, Analyst, Analytica Chimica Acta, Applied Spectroscopy, Journal of Analytical Atomic Spectrometry, Mikrochimica Acta, Spectrochimica Acta, Part B, and Talanta as well as to a lesser extent in a number of other journals. These progress reports published have been considered for noting the trends of development in the fields mentioned, at the hand of a selection of the papers published in the journals named in the period January 2002 to December 2003 for the case of atomic absorption and atomic emission work, whereas for inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry and for glow discharge atomic emission and mass spectrometry, the selection of the papers considered the journals as indicated in the respective chapters. Results in the field of atomic spectrometry in the last biannual period also were reported on the following important conferences: Winter Conference on Plasma Spectrochemistry, Scottsdale, AZ (2002), the International Conference on Atomic Spectroscopy (ICAS), Tokyo (2002), the Colloquium Spectroscopicum Internationale, Granada (2003), the European Winter Conference on Plasma Spectrochemistry, Garmisch Partenkirchen (2003), and the annual Meeting of the Federation of Analytical Chemistry and Spectroscopy Societies, in Nashville, TN (2002) and Fort Lauderdale, FL (2003) as well as in many other meetings. Progress made in the field of atomic spectrometry is discussed for the following fields: optical atomic spectrometry (atomic absorption and atomic emission spectrometry with sparks, arcs, and plasma sources at atmospheric pressure including laser plasmas); plasma mass spectrometry and optical atomic and mass spectrometry with glow discharge sources.