ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses experimental techniques used in electrogenerated chemiluminescence (ECL). It merely introduces some mechanistic pictures and chemical aspects required for illustration, so that the goal and the nature of experimentation can be appreciated. The topic has been extensively studied and thoroughly reviewed [1-3], and there are also a few commercial instruments available on the market, (e.g., IGEN, Boehringer, etc.; also see the discussion in Chapter 8), so we mainly focus on some of the experimental aspects encountered in conventional ECL measurements. Readers who are interested in detailed discussion on the early works are encouraged to refer to Refs. 1-3. Also included are some combined techniques, including magnetic field effects, interception techniques, and an up-to-date account of the newly developed combined techniques, thus, interested individual investigators may appreciate the design of ECL-related techniques for their specific applications.
