Iranian Company Makes LIBS Device for Analysis of Materials
“The device is 100% indigenously manufactured and eliminating the time-consuming sampling process (from several days to several minutes) is one of the features of this device,” Abouzar Heydarzadeh, the managing director of the knowledge-based company, told ANA.
“Analysis of minerals, agriculture, food and metals (like gold and sponge iron) are among the applications of the device,” he added, noting that the device is extraordinary accurate.
“Selling 8 devices in Iran and receiving requests from the UAE, Azerbaijan and Afghanistan have been among the measures adopted to develop the sales of our product,” Heydarzadeh said.
Iran is the fifth country in the world which enjoys the LIBS technology after the US, Japan, Germany and China.
LIBS is a type of atomic emission spectroscopy which uses a highly energetic laser pulse as the excitation source.
The laser is focused to form a plasma, which atomizes and excites samples. The formation of the plasma only begins when the focused laser achieves a certain threshold for optical breakdown, which generally depends on the environment and the target material.
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