Detection of Nitrogen Metastable Molecules by using the Threshold Ionization Mass Spectrometry

IEEJ Transactions on Fundamentals and Materials

Volumn 123, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 167-172

  Matsuda, Satoshi ^a   Shimosato, Hirotsugu ^a   Yumoto, Motoshige ^a   Sakai, Takao ^a  

^a TOKYO CITY UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

N2(A3 u+); nitrogen metastable molecule; nitrogen plasma; threshold ionization mass spectrometry

Indexed keywords

EID: 12444302574     PISSN: 03854205     EISSN: 13475533     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1541/ieejfms.123.167     Document Type: Article

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