The ion funnel: Theory, implementations, and applications

Mass Spectrometry Reviews

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 294-312

  Kelly, Ryan T ^a   Tolmachev, Aleksey V ^a   Page, Jason S ^a   Tang, Keql ^a   Smith, Richard D ^a  

^a PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

ESI; Ion guide; Ion optics; Multipole ion guide; Rf focusing; Stacked ring ion guide

Indexed keywords

ELECTRODYNAMIC ION FUNNEL; ELECTROSPRAY IONIZATION INTERFACE; ELECTROSPRAYS; GAS JET; ION COOLING; ION FUNNELS; ION GUIDE; ION MOBILITY SPECTROMETRY; ION MOTIONS; ION OPTICS; ION TRANSMISSION EFFICIENCY; ION TRAPPING; LOW PRESSURES; MULTIPOLES; PRESSURE REGIME; RF FOCUSING;

ELECTROSPRAY IONIZATION; IONIZATION OF GASES; MASS SPECTROMETRY; PHASE INTERFACES;

IONS;

ION;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; ELECTROSPRAY MASS SPECTROMETRY; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; RADIATION SCATTERING; THEORETICAL MODEL;

COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; IONS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, ELECTROSPRAY IONIZATION;

EID: 77951028799     PISSN: 02777037     EISSN: 10982787     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mas.20232     Document Type: Article

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