Volumetric intensity dependence on the formation of molecular and atomic ions within a high intensity laser focus

Journal of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 82-89

  Robson, Lynne ^a   Ledingham, Kenneth W D ^a   McKenna, Paul ^a   McCanny, Thomas ^a   Shimizu, Seiji ^a   Yang, Jiamin M ^a   Wahlstr̈m, Claes G̈ran ^b   Lopez Martens, Rodrigo ^b   Varju, Katalin ^b   Johnsson, Per ^b   Mauritsson, Johan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

^b LUND INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC IONIZATION; LASER FIELDS; MOLECULAR IONIZATION; TIME OF FLIGHT MASS SPECTROMETRY;

BENZENE; DISSOCIATION; IONIZATION; LASER BEAMS; LASER PULSES; MASS SPECTROMETRY; PULSED LASER APPLICATIONS; SCANNING;

VOLUMETRIC ANALYSIS;

AROMATIC COMPOUND; BENZENE D1; ION; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; ATOM; DISSOCIATION; IONIZATION; LASER; MOLECULE; TIME OF FLIGHT MASS SPECTROMETRY; VOLUMETRY;

BENZENE; DEUTERIUM; LASERS; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, MATRIX-ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION-IONIZATION;

EID: 19944429266     PISSN: 10440305     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jasms.2004.09.018     Document Type: Article

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