Characterization of Charge Separation in the Array of Micromachined UltraSonic Electrospray (AMUSE) Ion Source for Mass Spectrometry

Journal of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry

Volumn 20, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 1684-1687

  Forbes, Thomas P ^a   Dixon, R Brent ^b   Muddiman, David C ^b   Degertekin, F Levent ^a   Fedorov, Andrei G ^a,c  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTES; CHARGE FLUCTUATIONS; CHARGE SEPARATIONS; CHARGED DROPLET; COUNTER ELECTRODES; DC POTENTIAL; ELECTROSPRAYS; EXTERNAL ELECTRIC FIELD; IONIZATION EFFICIENCY; IONIZATION MECHANISMS; MICROMACHINED; NOZZLE ARRAYS; NOZZLE ORIFICE; OPERATION STABILITY; SIGNAL STABILITY; STRONG ELECTRIC FIELDS;

ELECTRIC FIELDS; ION SOURCES; IONIZATION; IONS; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NOZZLES; SEPARATION; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; ULTRASONICS;

ELECTROSPRAY IONIZATION;

ARTICLE; ELECTRIC FIELD; ELECTROSPRAY MASS SPECTROMETRY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MOLECULAR STABILITY; NEGATIVE ION ELECTROSPRAY; PIEZOELECTRICITY; POSITIVE ION ELECTROSPRAY; SEPARATION TECHNIQUE; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO;

EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOMETRY; SONICATION; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, ELECTROSPRAY IONIZATION; STATIC ELECTRICITY;

EID: 69549138059     PISSN: 10440305     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jasms.2009.05.006     Document Type: Article

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