3.3  Components of an Inductively Coupled Plasma—Atomic Emission Spectrometry System (ICP-AES)

3.3.5 Data Collection

When single element detection was the goal of instrumentation, a simple chart recorder or digital display was sufficient for data collection. However, with the advances in ICP-AES technology today, computers are a necessity, not only to control the automatic sampler and the instrument control but also for data collection. Data collection systems are divided into a “method file” to run the instrument and “sequence file” to tell the instrument where a sample is in the sample tray, when to run it, and where to store the collected data file.

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