On the NASA 2020 rover mission to Jezero crater, the remote determination of the texture,
mineralogy and chemistry of rocks is essential to quickly and thoroughly characterize an …

Laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS) is a simple, straightforward, and versatile
form of atomic emission spectroscopy that focuses a rapidly-pulsed laser beam onto a …

Laser-produced plasmas (LPPs) engulf exotic and complex conditions ranging in
temperature, density, pressure, magnetic and electric fields, charge states, charged particle …

LIBS-based classification has experienced an ever-increasing interest in the last few years.
LIBS is a well-suited technique for classification tasks based on elemental fingerprinting …

In the last few years, LIBS has become an established technique for the assessment of
elemental concentrations in various sample types. However, for many applications …

The first part of this two-part review focused on the fundamental and diagnostics aspects of
laser-induced plasmas, only touching briefly upon concepts such as sensitivity and detection …

The first part of this review describes laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS)
instrumentation for in situ measurement outside the laboratory, both prototype instruments …

Laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS) has become a very popular analytical
method in the last decade in view of some of its unique features such as applicability to any …

During recent years, important developments have been achieved in the application of laser
induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS) for elemental imaging. The aim of this review is to …

An implementation of a fast, robust, and effective algorithm is inevitable in modern
multivariate data analysis (MVDA). The principal component analysis (PCA) algorithm is …