Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in

A laser ion-mobility spectrometer

  • General Experimental Techniques
  • Published:
Instruments and Experimental Techniques Aims and scope Submit manuscript

Abstract

The process of ion-packet broadening in a longitudinal laser spectrometer of ion mobility is studied. The contributions of the diffusion, Coulomb, and other broadening mechanisms are compared. The resolution of the developed spectrometer was measured (R ∼ 45) in atmospheres of both purified air and pure nitrogen. The dependence of the spectrometer resolution on the drift voltage was studied. The recorded spectra of a number of molecules of explosives with an extremely low pressure of saturated vapors indicate a high sensitivity of the developed spectrometer (no worse than 10−14 g/cm3).

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this article

Log in via an institution

Price excludes VAT (USA)
Tax calculation will be finalised during checkout.

Instant access to the full article PDF.

Institutional subscriptions

Similar content being viewed by others

References

  1. Khayamian, T., Tabrizchi, M., and Jafari, M.T., Talanta, 2003, vol. 59, p. 327.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  2. Ching, Wu., Siems, W.F., and Hill, H.H. Jr., Anal. Chem. 2000, vol. 72, p. 396.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  3. Wessel, M.D. and Jurs, P.C., Anal. Chem. 1994, vol. 66, p. 2480.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  4. Siems, W.F., Ching, Wu., Tarver, E.E., et al., Anal. Chem. 1994, vol. 66, p. 4195.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  5. Jun, Xu., Whitten, W.B., and Ramsey, J.M., Anal. Chem. 2000, vol. 72, p. 5787.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  6. Mahmoud Tabrizchi, Talanta, 2004, vol. 62, p. 65.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  7. Hill, H.H., Klochkov, D.V., Kotkovskiy, G.E., et al., J. Ion Mobility Spectrometry, 2001, vol. 4, no. 2, p. 160.

    Google Scholar 

  8. Cotte-Rodriguez, I., Taas, Z., Talanty, N., et al., Anal. Chem. 2005, vol. 71, p. 6755.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  9. Slack, G.C., McNair, H.M., and Wasserzug, L., J. High Resol. Chromatogr. 1992, vol. 15, no. 2, p. 102.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  10. Ewing, R.G., Atkinson, D.A., Eiceman, G.A., and Ewing, G.J., Talanta, 2001, vol. 54, p. 515.

    Article  Google Scholar 

Download references

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. Moscow Engineering-Physics Institute (State University), Kashirskoe sh. 31, Moscow, 115409, Russia

    G. E. Kotkovskii, I. L. Martynov & A. A. Chistyakov

  2. Shubnikov Institute of Crystallography, Russian Academy of Sciences, Leninskii pr. 59, Moscow, 119333, Russia

    V. V. Novikova

Authors
  1. G. E. Kotkovskii
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  2. I. L. Martynov
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  3. V. V. Novikova
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  4. A. A. Chistyakov
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Additional information

Original Russian Text © G.E. Kotkovskii, I.L. Martynov, V.V. Novikova, A.A. Chistyakov, 2009, published in Pribory i Tekhnika Eksperimenta, 2009, No. 2, pp. 110–116.

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

About this article

Cite this article

Kotkovskii, G.E., Martynov, I.L., Novikova, V.V. et al. A laser ion-mobility spectrometer. Instrum Exp Tech 52, 253–259 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0020441209020249

Download citation

  • Received:

  • Published:

  • Issue Date:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1134/S0020441209020249

PACS numbers

Search

Navigation