Instruments and Measurement Capabilities

Inductively Coupled Plasma Optical Emission Spectrometry (ICP-OES)

Perkin-Elmer Optima 3000 Inductively Coupled Plasma Optical Emission Spectrometer

• Analysis of solutions or dissolved solids
• Detection limits in the parts per billion range in solution for many elements
• Echelle spectrometer with two segmented charge coupled device array detectors for simultaneous detection of more than 200 spectra including more than 350 analytical emission lines
• Determine up to 70 elements in two minutes per sample
• Measure minor, trace and ultratrace concentrations without dilution or preconcentration because of wide linear dynamic range
• Axial or radial viewing of ICP emission provides lowest detection limits or maximum accuracy

The Optima 3000 instrument was donated to The Ohio State University by Perkin- Elmer Corporation in 1994 for research in the Laboratory for Plasma Spectrochemistry. It is available part time for MARC use.

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