Fundamentals and Applications of Aerosol Analysis with Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy

Dear Colleagues,

Laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS) is an atomic emission spectroscopy technique that uses a laser-induced plasma as a sampling and excitation source. LIBS can be utilized for rapid and in situ analyses of a wide range of substances, including aerosols. Due to the aerosol’s ubiquitous nature, the study, monitoring, and physicochemical characterization of aerosols are important for climate, environment, industry, medicine, military, research, and engineering applications. The analysis of aerosols is challenging due to their unique physicochemical characteristics (e.g., multiple origins, wide chemical composition and size range) and multiple measurement needs (e.g., real-time results and quantitative results, chemical speciation, particle size distribution). Due to its well-known characteristics, LIBS is uniquely well suited to perform direct and indirect aerosol analysis, and for fundamental studies related to laser-induced plasmas and its diagnostics.

The goal of this Special Issue of Photonics is to present recent progress in the analysis of aerosols with LIBS and related topics. Original research articles and reviews are welcome. Research areas may include (but not limited to) industrial, military, environmental, and medical applications of aerosol analysis, remote LIBS, laser-particle and plasma-particle interactions, optical traps for single particle analysis, laser ablation, single-shot measurements, particle-induced breakdown, and fundamentals and applications of photonics and optics.

Dr. Daniel Diaz
Prof. Dr. David W. Hahn
Guest Editors

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• laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy
• aerosols
• aerosol analysis
• single-shot analysis
• plasma–particle interactions
• ns-LIBS, fs-LIBS
• remote LIBS