Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
---|---|---|---|---|
1240175 | Spectrochimica Acta Part B: Atomic Spectroscopy | 2009 | 6 Pages |
Abstract
Velocities of argon atoms and calcium ions were measured in the first vacuum stage of an inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometer using high-resolution laser-excited fluorescence spectroscopy. The calcium ions reached terminal velocities in the supersonic expansion that were consistently 5–6% higher than those of argon atoms, despite minimal differences in the masses of the two species. A computational model of the expansion was developed that shows the development of an ambipolar electric field along the expansion axis. With reasonable assumptions about electron temperatures in the expansion, the model accounts for the differences between the terminal velocities of the neutral argon atoms and the singly-charged calcium ions.
Related Topics
Physical Sciences and Engineering
Chemistry
Analytical Chemistry
Authors
Paul B. Farnsworth, Ross L. Spencer, W. Neil Radicic, Nicholas Taylor, Jeffrey Macedone, Haibin Ma,