Miniaturised time-of-flight mass spectrometer

European Space Agency, (Special Publication) ESA SP

Volumn , Issue 543, 2004, Pages 131-136

  Rohner, Urs ^a   Benz, Willy ^a   Whitby, James A ^a   Wurz, Peter ^a   Schulz, Rita ^b   Romstedt, Jens ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b Estec/ESA   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Ablation; Laser; LMS; Mass spectrometer; Mercury; Time of flight

Indexed keywords

COATINGS; FLIGHT DYNAMICS; INTERPLANETARY FLIGHT; IONIZATION; LASER ABLATION; LASER PULSES; PLANETARY SURFACE ANALYSIS; ROBOTIC ARMS; SPACE RESEARCH; SPACECRAFT;

LASER; LASER ABLATION TIME-OF-FLIGHT MASS SPECTROMETERS (LMS); PLANETARY BODIES; TIME-OF-FLIGHT;

MASS SPECTROMETERS;

EID: 22144454252     PISSN: 03796566     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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