Spectroscopic characterization of a microplasma used as ionization source for ion mobility spectrometry

Spectrochimica Acta - Part B Atomic Spectroscopy

Volumn 62, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 1208-1215

  Michels, Antje ^a   Tombrink, Sven ^a   Vautz, Wolfgang ^a   Miclea, Manuela ^b   Franzke, Joachim ^a  

^a ISAS INSTITUTE FOR ANALYTICAL SCIENCES   (Germany)

^b MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Dielectric barrier discharge; Ion mobility spectrometry; Miniaturized atmospheric plasma

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; CARRIER MOBILITY; GAS METERS; PLASMA APPLICATIONS; PLASMA JETS; PROTONATION;

DIELECTRIC BARRIER DISCHARGE; GAS FLOW RATE; ION MOBILITY SPECTROMETRY; MINIATURIZED ATMOSPHERIC PLASMA; RADIOACTIVE IONIZATION;

PLASMAS;

EID: 36348987375     PISSN: 05848547     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sab.2007.08.004     Document Type: Article

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