Blind source separation in laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy

Many years have passed since the birth of laser induced breakdown analysis and several steps forward have been made for the improvement of the technique from a hardware and software point of view. Libs has been skyrocketed, literally. Now, the need to automate the process of recognition, classification and quantification of the analytes becomes more and more pressing. In the chapters of this book, the new advances regarding these issues have been described. Here, an attempt to separate the spectra of the analytes will be described, which uses some of the most common blind source separation techniques. This type of approach is not a usual practice in Libs, so our contribution wants to provide a taste of the potential of this method for anyone who wants to try their hand at analyzing real data.