Development of Quadrupole Mass Spectrometers Using Rapid Prototyping Technology

Journal of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry

Volumn 20, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 1359-1365

  Brkić, Boris ^a   France, Neil ^a   Clare, Adam T ^a   Sutcliffe, Chris J ^a   Chalker, Paul R ^a   Taylor, Stephen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIGITAL LIGHT PROCESSING; FABRICATION TECHNIQUE; ION MANIPULATION; LOW COSTS; LOW-MASS; MASS ANALYZERS; MASS FILTER; MASS SPECTRA; MICRO-SCALE; NUMERICAL SIMULATION; PROOF OF PRINCIPLES; PROTOTYPE DESIGNS; QUADRUPOLE MASS FILTERS; QUADRUPOLE MASS SPECTROMETER; RAPID PROTOTYPING TECHNOLOGY; SPECTRAL PEAK; UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL;

CONCURRENT ENGINEERING; ELECTRODES; HELIUM; ION SOURCES; JOB ANALYSIS; MASS SPECTROMETERS; MASS SPECTROMETRY; PINCH EFFECT; RAPID PROTOTYPING; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

IONS;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRODE; FILTER DESIGN; OPTICAL RESOLUTION; PREDICTION; QUADRUPOLE MASS SPECTROMETRY; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SPECTRAL SENSITIVITY; STIMULUS RESPONSE;

EID: 67649372676     PISSN: 10440305     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jasms.2009.03.025     Document Type: Article

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