A new magnetron based gas aggregation source of metal nanoclusters coupled to a double time-of-flight mass spectrometer system

Review of Scientific Instruments

Volumn 81, Issue 7, 2010, Pages

  Momin, Tahzeeb ^a   Bhowmick, Ashok ^a  

^a BHABHA ATOMIC RESEARCH CENTRE   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEAM INTENSITY; CHARGED CLUSTERS; CLUSTER MASS; CONTINUOUS PRODUCTION; COPPER NANOCLUSTERS; EXPERIMENTAL CONDITIONS; EXPERIMENTAL SETUP; GAS AGGREGATION; GAS-PHASE MEASUREMENT; GASPHASE; ISOTOPIC DISTRIBUTIONS; METAL NANOCLUSTERS; PRODUCTION CYCLE; SIZE-SELECTIVE; TIME-OF-FLIGHT MASS SPECTROMETERS;

MAGNETRONS; MASS SPECTROMETERS; MASS SPECTROMETRY; PHASE MEASUREMENT;

NANOCLUSTERS;

EID: 77957141073     PISSN: 00346748     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3465304     Document Type: Article

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