Modeling of the plasma extraction efficiency of an inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometer interface using the direct simulation Monte Carlo method

Spectrochimica Acta - Part B Atomic Spectroscopy

Volumn 93, Issue , 2014, Pages 34-40

  Kivel, Niko ^a   Potthast, Heiko Dirk ^a   Günther Leopold, Ines ^a   Vanhaecke, Frank ^b   Günther, Detlef ^c  

^a PAUL SCHERRER INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^c LABORATORY OF INORGANIC CHEMISTRY   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Direct Simulation Monte Carlo; High performance computing; Mass discrimination; Multi collector ICP MS; Shock wave formation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84894351400     PISSN: 05848547     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sab.2013.12.010     Document Type: Article

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