Model of microsecond pulsed glow discharge in hollow cathode for mass spectrometry

Spectrochimica Acta - Part B Atomic Spectroscopy

Volumn 64, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 416-426

  Voronov, M ^a   Ganeev, A ^a,b  

^a Lumex Ltd   (Russian Federation)

^b ST PETERSBURG STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Discharge modeling; Hollow cathode; Mass spectrometry; Pulsed glow discharge

Indexed keywords

AFTERGLOW MODELS; DISCHARGE MODELING; ELECTRICAL FIELD; HOLLOW CATHODE; HOLLOW CATHODES; MODEL RESULTS; NEW MODEL; OPERATIONAL PARAMETERS; PLASMA BEHAVIOR; PULSED DISCHARGE; PULSED GLOW DISCHARGE; TIME-OF-FLIGHT MASS SPECTROMETERS;

IONIZATION; MASS SPECTROMETERS; MASS SPECTROMETRY; PLASMAS; POISSON EQUATION; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

GLOW DISCHARGES;

EID: 67649450454     PISSN: 05848547     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sab.2009.05.004     Document Type: Article

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