Effect of an axial magnetic field on the performance of a quadrupole mass spectrometer

Journal of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry

Volumn 21, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 2070-2076

  Syed, Sarfaraz U ^a   Sreekumar, Jeyan ^a   Brkic, Boris ^a   Gibson, John R ^a   Taylor, Stephen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AXIAL MAGNETIC FIELD; MASS FILTER; OPERATING PARAMETERS; QUADRUPOLE MASS SPECTROMETER; STATIC MAGNETIC FIELDS; THEORETICAL APPROACH; Z-DIRECTIONS;

ARGON; HELIUM; INSTRUMENTS; MASS SPECTROMETERS; MASS SPECTROMETRY;

MAGNETIC FIELDS;

ARGON; HELIUM;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRODE; FILTER; MAGNETIC FIELD; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PREDICTION; QUADRUPOLE MASS SPECTROMETRY; STATIC ELECTRICITY;

EID: 78649529337     PISSN: 10440305     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jasms.2010.08.020     Document Type: Article

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