Parametric evaluation of laser ablation and ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry with ion guide cooling cell

Spectrochimica Acta - Part B Atomic Spectroscopy

Volumn 63, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 868-874

  Peng, Ding ^a   He, Jian ^b   Yu, Quan ^a   Chen, Lizhi ^a   Hang, Wei ^a,b   Huang, Benli ^a  

^a Key Laboratory for Chemical Biology of Fujian Province   (China)

^b XIAMEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Direct solids analysis; Elemental analysis; Laser ionization; Mass spectrometry

Indexed keywords

ABLATION; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; COOLING; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; IONIZATION; IONIZATION OF GASES; LASER ABLATION; LASER APPLICATIONS; LASERS; MASS SPECTROMETERS; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NEGATIVE IONS; NOZZLES; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SPECTROMETERS; SPECTROMETRY;

BUFFER GAS PRESSURE; ELEMENTAL ANALYSIS (EA); HEXAPOLE; IN ORDER; ION GUIDING; IONIZATION TIME OF FLIGHT MASS SPECTROMETRY (TOF MS); KINETIC ENERGY DISTRIBUTION (KED); LASER IRRADIANCE; LIMIT-OF-DETECTION (LOD); MASS RESOLVING POWER; OPTIMIZED CONDITIONS; PARAMETRIC STUDIES; RELATIVE SENSITIVITY COEFFICIENTS (RSC); RF FREQUENCIES; SEMI QUANTITATIVE; SIGNAL INTENSITY (SI); TIME-OF-FLIGHT MASS SPECTROMETER (TOFMS);

PULSED LASER DEPOSITION;

EID: 47649123017     PISSN: 05848547     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sab.2008.02.006     Document Type: Article

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