Miniature focal plane mass spectrometer with 1000-pixel modified-CCD detector array for direct ion measurement

Review of Scientific Instruments

Volumn 76, Issue 2, 2005, Pages

  Sinha, Mahadeva P ^a   Wadsworth, Mark ^a,b  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b Tangent Technologies Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHROMATOGRAPHIC COLUMNS; CHROMATOGRAPHIC SEPARATION; MAGNETIC FIELD STRENGTH; MINIATURE MASS SPECTROMETERS (MMS);

CHARGE COUPLED DEVICES; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; IONS; ISOTOPES; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MAGNETIC MATERIALS; MAGNETIC PERMEABILITY; MAGNETS; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MOS CAPACITORS; NITROGEN; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS;

MASS SPECTROMETERS;

EID: 13744253158     PISSN: 00346748     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1840291     Document Type: Article

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