At Imperial College, he created a new research group to work on analytical atomic absorption and atomic fluorescence spectroscopy.
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Such resonant reactions are more readily described by the formalities of atomic fluorescence and further development was facilitated by an interdisciplinary approach of IGE.
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This process of re-emitting the absorbed photon is " resonance fluorescence " and while it is characteristic of atomic fluorescence, is seen in molecular fluorescence as well.
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Atomic Fluorescence Spectroscopy ( AFS ) techniques are useful in other kinds of analysis / measurement of a compound present in air or water, or other media, such as CVAFS which is used for heavy metals detection, such as mercury.
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The school's geochemical and mineralogical analytical laboratories include a ?.5 million microbeam analytical facility that contains an extensive range of sample preparation and analytical facilities including optical microscopes, cathodoluminescence, low-vacuum scanning electron microscope, electron probe microanalyser, QEMSCAN ( particle analysis and mineral identification ), X-ray fluorescence spectrometer, X-ray diffraction, atomic absorption spectrometers, atomic fluorescence spectrometer plus elemental, physical and thermal analysers.