Identifying Ancient Ceramics Using Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy Combined with a Back Propagation Neural Network. Issue 10 (October 2019)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: He, Jiao; Liu, Yongbin; Pan, Congyuan; Du, Xuewei
• Is Part Of: Applied spectroscopy. Volume 73:Issue 10(2019)
• Page Start: 1201
• Page End: 1207
• Publication Date: 2019-10
• Subjects: Ceramic identification -- laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy -- LIBS -- principal component analysis -- PCA -- kernel principal component analysis -- PCA -- back propagation neural network; Spectrum analysis -- Periodicals; 543.505
• DOI: 10.1177/0003702819861576
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0003-7028

Abstract

This study investigated the rapid identification of ceramics via laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS) to realize the identification of ancient ceramics from different regions. Ceramics from different regions may have large differences in their elemental composition. Thus, using LIBS technology for ceramic identification is feasible. The spectral intensities of 11 common elements, namely, Si, Al, Fe, Ca, Mg, Ti, Mn, Na, K, Sr, and Ba, in ceramics were selected as classification indices. Principal component analysis (PCA) and kernel principal component analysis (KPCA) combined with the back propagation (BP) neural network were used to identify ceramics. Furthermore, the effects of the PCA and KPCA data processing methods were compared. Finally, this work aimed to select a suitable method for obtaining spectral data on ceramics identified by LIBS through experiments. Results revealed that LIBS technology could aid the routine, rapid, and on-site analysis of archeological objects to rapidly identify or screen various types of objects.