A full voltage-controlled nanoelectrospray system and its steady characteristic analysed by empirically equivalent circuit method

Sensors and Actuators, B: Chemical

Volumn 147, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 618-621

  Wang, Ke ^a   Tan, Zhikai ^a   Ryan, Charles ^a   Smith, Kate ^a   Paine, Mark ^a   Stark, John ^a  

^a QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Equivalent circuit model; I V characteristic; Nanoelectrospray system; Voltage controlled form

Indexed keywords

APPLIED VOLTAGES; BACK PRESSURES; BEST-FIT MODELS; ELECTRICAL EQUIVALENT; ELECTROSPRAYS; EMPIRICAL RESULTS; EQUIVALENT CIRCUIT METHOD; EQUIVALENT CIRCUIT MODEL; FREE SPRAY; FULL VOLTAGE; IV CHARACTERISTICS; LINEAR CORRELATION; LOW FLOW; NANOELECTROSPRAY; SERIES RESISTOR; SPRAY DISTANCES; SPRAY REGIME; STEADY CHARACTERISTIC; SYSTEM VOLTAGE; VOLTAGE-CONTROLLED;

ELECTRIC CONVERTERS; ELECTRIC NETWORK ANALYSIS; ELECTRIC RESISTANCE; ELECTROHYDRODYNAMICS; EQUIVALENCE CLASSES; EQUIVALENT CIRCUITS; MASS SPECTROMETRY; RESISTORS; SURFACE TENSION;

SPRAY NOZZLES;

EID: 77953139187     PISSN: 09254005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.snb.2010.03.070     Document Type: Article

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