Towards traceable particle number concentration standard: Single charged aerosol reference (SCAR)

Journal of Aerosol Science

Volumn 41, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 719-728

  Yli Ojanperä, Jaakko ^a   Mäkelä, Jyrki M ^a   Marjamäki, Marko ^a   Rostedt, Antti ^a   Keskinen, Jorma ^a  

^a TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

Author keywords

Aerosol reference; Calibration; Number concentration; Singly charged; Standard

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; CHARGED PARTICLES; PARTICLE SIZE; PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS; STANDARDS;

ACCURATE MEASUREMENT; AEROSOL PARTICLES; ELECTRICAL CHARGING; ELECTRICAL CURRENT; NUMBER CONCENTRATION; PARTICLE NUMBER CONCENTRATION; SINGLY CHARGED; TRACEABLE CALIBRATION;

AEROSOLS;

NANOPARTICLE;

ATMOSPHERIC ELECTRICITY; ATMOSPHERIC PARTICLE; CALIBRATION; CURRENT; PARTICLE SIZE; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; VOLUME CHANGE;

AEROSOL; ARTICLE; ELECTRIC CURRENT; MEASUREMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFERENCE DATABASE; SINGLE CHARGED AEROSOL REFERENCE;

EID: 77954313782     PISSN: 00218502     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jaerosci.2010.04.012     Document Type: Article

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