Method Development Tips for ICP-OES: Wavelength Selection Considerations for Optimal Sensitivity and Linearity

In ICP-OES method development, wavelength selection based on sensitivity, freedom from spectral interferences, and linearity is the foundation upon which quality data is built.

Taking the time to investigate multiple wavelengths for a given element will yield the most accurate analytical results. During this webinar, several important features and tools for method development will be shown in the ICP Expert software, including a feature called IntelliQuant. IntelliQuant is an included feature of the ICP Expert software, and is a semi-quantitative analysis based on a supplied calibration. This feature, along with others which will be shown, makes method development with the Agilent ICP-OES simple and easy.

Presenter: Tina Harville (Online Applications Advisor, Agilent Technologies, Inc.)

Tina R. Harville has spent her career working in atomic spectrometry. She graduated from Clemson University with a Ph.D. in Analytical Chemistry where her research focused on Radio-Frequency Glow Discharge Atomic Emission Spectrometry (RF-GD-AES). After graduate school, she began her career as an ICP-OES development chemist at Alfred H. Knight Laboratories in South Carolina. Then she went to NJ where she worked both as an ICP-OES and RF-GD-AES applications chemist for JY/HORIBA. She later came back to the south to work at Varian, Inc. in Cary, NC as a Dissolution Product Specialist and then quickly joined the atomic team as an applications chemist. For seven years, she was an applications engineer for Agilent, supporting both Flame and Furnace AA, MP-AES and ICP-OES. Two years ago, she joined the Technical Support Team at Agilent, where she is currently an Online Applications Advisor.