Electrohydrodynamics of charge separation in droplet-based ion sources with time-varying electrical and mechanical actuation

Journal of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 501-510

  Forbes, Thomas P ^a   Degertekin, F Levent ^a,b   Fedorov, Andrei G ^a,b  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AC ELECTRIC FIELD; APPLIED ELECTRIC FIELD; CFD SOFTWARES; CHARGE MIGRATION; CHARGE SEPARATIONS; CHARGE TRANSPORT; COMPUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; DROPLET FORMATION; ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRICAL CURRENT; ELECTRICALLY CONDUCTING FLUIDS; ELECTROSPRAYING; ELECTROSPRAYS; EXPERIMENTAL MEASUREMENTS; FIRST-PRINCIPLES MODEL; JET FORMATION; LINEAR RELATIONSHIPS; MECHANICAL ACTUATIONS; MECHANICAL FIELD; MECHANICAL FORCE; MICROMACHINED; OPERATING MODES; STATIC AND DYNAMIC; TAYLOR CONE; THEORETICAL MODELS; THEORETICAL PREDICTION; TIME VARYING;

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; DROP FORMATION; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRIC FIELDS; ELECTROHYDRODYNAMICS; EXPERIMENTS; ION SOURCES; TIME VARYING SYSTEMS;

IONS;

ALTERNATING CURRENT; ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; DIRECT CURRENT; ELECTRIC FIELD; ELECTRICITY; ELECTROHYDRODYNAMICS; ELECTROSPRAY; FLUID FLOW; HYDRODYNAMICS; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; SEPARATION TECHNIQUE; TRANSPORT KINETICS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; MODELS, CHEMICAL; RHEOLOGY; SOLUTIONS; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, ELECTROSPRAY IONIZATION; STATIC ELECTRICITY; STRESS, MECHANICAL;

EID: 77950339574     PISSN: 10440305     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jasms.2009.12.022     Document Type: Article

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