Formation of aluminium, aluminium nitride and nitrogen clusters via laser ablation of nano aluminium nitride. Laser desorption ionisation and matrix-assisted laser desorption ionisation time-of-flight mass spectrometry

Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry

Volumn 25, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 1687-1693

  Panyala, Nagender Reddy ^a   Prysiazhnyi, Vadym ^a   Slavíček, Pavel ^a   Černák, Mirko ^a,b   Havel, Josef ^a  

^a MASARYK UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^b Institute of Experimental Physics of the Slovak Academy of Sciences   (Slovakia)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM NITRIDE; DESORPTION; III-V SEMICONDUCTORS; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NEGATIVE IONS; NITRIDES; POSITIVE IONS; PULSED LASERS;

ALUMINUM NITRIDE CLUSTER; DESORPTION IONIZATION; LASER DESORPTION; LASERS ABLATIONS; MATRIX-ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION/IONIZATION-TIME-OF-FLIGHT MASS SPECTROMETRY; NANO POWDERS; NANOALUMINUM; NITROGEN CLUSTERS; POSITIVE ION MODE; PULSED LASER ABLATION;

LASER ABLATION;

EID: 79956317177     PISSN: 09514198     EISSN: 10970231     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/rcm.5030     Document Type: Article

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