Tunable wavelength soft photoionization of ionic liquid vapors

Journal of Physical Chemistry A

Volumn 114, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 879-883

  Strasser, Daniel ^a,e   Goulay, Fabien ^a,f   Belau, Leonid ^b   Kostko, Oleg ^b   Koh, Christine ^a   Chambreau, Steven D ^c   Vaghjiani, Ghanshyam L ^d   Ahmed, Musahid ^a   Leone, Stephen R ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^d AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^e HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^f SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATION SUBSTITUTIONS; COULOMBIC BINDING; DISSOCIATIVE IONIZATION; EFFICIENCY CURVES; ION PAIRS; IONIZATION ENERGIES; IONIZATION MECHANISMS; PHOTOELECTRON SPECTRUM; PHOTON ENERGY REGIONS; POSITIVELY CHARGED; THRESHOLD IONIZATION; TUNABLE WAVELENGTH;

BINDING ENERGY; CHEMICAL BONDS; DISSOCIATION; ELECTRONEGATIVITY; IONIC LIQUIDS; NEGATIVE IONS; NUCLEAR ENERGY; PARTICLE DETECTORS; PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY; PHOTOIONIZATION; PHOTONS; POSITIVE IONS; POTENTIAL ENERGY; VAPORS;

IONIZATION OF LIQUIDS;

EID: 75249099679     PISSN: 10895639     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jp909727f     Document Type: Article

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