Superconductivity for mass spectroscopy

IEICE Transactions on Electronics

Volumn E90-C, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 550-555

  Ohkubo, Masataka ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

Author keywords

Biomolecules; Mass spectroscopy; Superconducting detectors; Synthetic polymer

Indexed keywords

ANTIGEN-ANTIBODY REACTIONS; DIAGNOSIS; KINETIC ENERGY; MASS SPECTROMETERS; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; SUPERCONDUCTIVITY;

ANTIGEN-ANTIBODY COMPLEXES; INTACT IONS; PROTEOMICS; SUPERCONDUCTING DETECTORS;

DETECTORS;

EID: 33947166304     PISSN: 09168524     EISSN: 17451353     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ietele/e90-c.3.550     Document Type: Article

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