A new time-of-flight aerosol mass spectrometer (TOF-AMS) - Instrument description and first field deployment

Aerosol Science and Technology

Volumn 39, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 637-658

  Drewnick, Frank ^a   Hings, Silke S ^a   DeCarlo, Peter ^b   Jayne, John T ^c   Gonin, Marc ^d   Fuhrer, Katrin ^d   Weimer, Silke ^e,f,g   Jimenez, Jose L ^b   Demerjian, Kenneth L ^e   Borrmann, Stephan ^a,h   Worsnop, Douglas R ^c  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR CHEMISTRY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^c AERODYNE RESEARCH INC   (United States)

^d TOFWERK AG   (Switzerland)

^e STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^f SWISS FEDERAL LABORATORIES FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

^g PAUL SCHERRER INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^h JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AERODYNAMICS; AEROSOLS; COMPOSITION; DATA ACQUISITION; EVAPORATION; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; IONIZATION; LENSES; PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS; VAPORIZATION;

AERODYNAMIC LENS; AEROSOL MASS SPECTROMETER (AMS); TIME-OF-FLIGHT AEROSOL MASS SPECTROMETER (TOF-AMS);

MASS SPECTROMETERS;

ACCELERATION; AEROSOL; ELECTRON; EVAPORATION; EXTRACTION; IONIZATION; MASS; MASS SPECTROMETER; MEASUREMENT; PARTICLE SIZE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REVIEW; TIME OF FLIGHT MASS SPECTROMETRY; VACUUM; VAPORIZER;

EID: 24944449501     PISSN: 02786826     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02786820500182040     Document Type: Review

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