Femtosecond Laser Photoionization Time-of-Flight Mass Spectrometry of Nitro-aromatic Explosives and Explosives Related Compounds

Journal of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 419-429

  Mullen, Christopher ^a   Coggiola, Michael J ^a   Oser, Harald ^a  

^a SRI INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COULOMB EXPLOSIONS; DINITROTOLUENE; EXPLOSIVE-RELATED COMPOUNDS; FEMTO-SECOND LASERS; LASER WAVELENGTHS; MASS SPECTRUM; MOLECULAR IONS; MULTIPHOTON IONIZATIONS; NITROTOLUENE; PEAK SHAPE ANALYSIS; POWER DENSITIES; RELATED COMPOUNDS; TIME OF FLIGHT-MASS SPECTROMETERS; TIME-OF FLIGHT MASS SPECTROMETRIES; ULTRA-FAST LASERS;

AROMATIC COMPOUNDS; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; LASERS; MASS SPECTROMETERS; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NEGATIVE IONS; NIOBIUM COMPOUNDS; NITRATION; PHOTOIONIZATION; PHOTOLYSIS; PULSED LASER APPLICATIONS;

EXPLOSIVES;

EID: 60649087741     PISSN: 10440305     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jasms.2008.10.022     Document Type: Article

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