A micro ionizer for portable mass spectrometers using double-gated isolated vertically aligned carbon nanofiber arrays

Technical Digest - International Electron Devices Meeting, IEDM

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 843-846

  Chen, L Y ^a   Velasquez Garcia L F ^a   Wang, X ^b   Teo, K ^b   Akinwande, A I ^a  

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON NANOFIBERS; DIRECT ENERGY CONVERSION; ELECTRON DEVICES; ELECTRONS; IONIZATION; MASS SPECTROMETERS; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NANOFIBERS; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; OPTICAL DESIGN; SPECTROMETERS; SPECTROMETRY; THERMIONIC EMISSION;

ELECTRON IMPACT; ELECTRON-IMPACT IONIZATION; FIELD IONIZATION; LOW POWERS; POWER DISSIPATIONS; TURN-ON VOLTAGES; VERTICALLY ALIGNED CARBON NANOFIBER;

IMPACT IONIZATION;

EID: 50249134299     PISSN: 01631918     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IEDM.2007.4419080     Document Type: Conference Paper

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