The effects of added hydrogen on a helium atmospheric-pressure plasma jet ambient desorption/ionization source

Journal of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 335-340

  Wright, Jonathan P ^a   Heywood, Matthew S ^a   Thurston, Glen K ^a   Farnsworth, Paul B ^a  

^a Brigham Young University   (United States)

Author keywords

Ambient desorption ionization; Helium dielectric barrier discharge; Hydrogen addition

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE PLASMAS; DESORPTION KINETICS; DESORPTION/IONIZATION; DIELECTRIC-BARRIER DISCHARGES; DIRECT GENERATION; ENHANCEMENT FACTOR; HYDROGEN ADDITION; MASS SPECTROMETRIC DATA;

DESORPTION; HELIUM; IONIZATION OF GASES;

PLASMA JETS;

HELIUM; HYDROGEN;

AMBIENT DESORPTION IONIZATION MASS SPECTROMETRY; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); DESORPTION; MASS SPECTROMETRY; PROCESS OPTIMIZATION;

EID: 84875887884     PISSN: 10440305     EISSN: 18791123     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13361-012-0558-9     Document Type: Article

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