Publications related to Selected-ion flow-tube mass spectrometry

Adding Color to Mass Spectra of Biopolymers: Charge Determination Analysis (CHARDA) Assigns Charge State to Every Ion Peak

Yury Tsybin, Natalia Gasilova, Laure Menin, Anton Kozhinov, Konstantin Nagornov

Traditionally, mass spectrometry (MS) output is the ion abundance plotted versus the ionic mass-to-charge ratio m/z. While employing only commercially available equipment, Charge Determination Analysis (CHARDA) adds a third dimension to MS, estimating for ...

Amer Chemical Soc2024

Study of fast-ion-driven toroidal Alfvén eigenmodes impacting on the global confinement in TCV L-mode plasmas

Stefano Coda, Laurent Villard, Stephan Brunner, Justin Richard Ball, Oleg Krutkin, Luke Simons, Umesh Kumar, Baruch Rofman, Jesús Poley Sanjuán, Javier García Hernández, Matteo Vallar, Aylwin Iantchenko, Samuele Mazzi

Following recent observations of unstable Toroidal Alfven Eigenmodes (TAEs) in a counter-current Neutral Beam Injection (NBI) scenario developed in TCV, an in-depth analysis of the impact of such modes on the global confinement and performance is carried o ...

2023

Simulating energetic particle losses in JET plasmas with a reverse integration biasing scheme

Mario Ludovico Podesta, Matteo Vallar

An integrated energetic particle transport model has been constructed in JET plasmas constrained by experimental fast ion loss measurements. The model incorporates a synthetic fast ion loss detector identical to JET's thin-foil Faraday cup fast ion loss de ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2022

Surface Analysis by Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry (SIMS): Principles and Applications from Swiss Laboratories

Anders Meibom, Stéphane Laurent Escrig, Florent Olivier Vivien Plane, Lukas Baumgartner, Thomas Bovay

Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry (SIMS) extracts chemical, elemental, or isotopic information about a localized area of a solid target by performing mass spectrometry on secondary ions sputtered from its surface by the impact of a beam of charged particles. ...

SWISS CHEMICAL SOC2022

Molybdenum disulphide nanoporous membranes as nanofluidic platforms - large-area engineering and study

Michal Daniel Macha

The work demonstrated in this thesis represent the path towards developing the large-scale fabrication of two-dimensional nanoporous membrane devices and use thereof as platforms to study nanoscale physics of water and ion flow through confined channels. M ...

EPFL2022

Evaluation of secondary electron intensities for dopant profiling in ion implanted semiconductors: a correlative study combining SE, SIMS and ECV methods

Franz-Josef Haug, Aïcha Hessler-Wyser, Quentin Thomas Jeangros, Audrey Marie Isabelle Morisset, Philippe Wyss, Mario Joe Lehmann

This study evaluates the secondary electron (SE) dopant contrast in scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and helium ion microscopy (HIM) on boron implanted silicon sample. Complementary techniques like secondary ion mass spectrometry and electrochemical capa ...

IOP PUBLISHING LTD2021

Passivating Polysilicon Recombination Junctions for Crystalline Silicon Solar Cells

Christophe Ballif, Franz-Josef Haug, Aïcha Hessler-Wyser, Quentin Thomas Jeangros, Andrea Ingenito, Audrey Marie Isabelle Morisset, Philippe Wyss, Mario Joe Lehmann

Polysilicon recombination junctions whose n-type bottom layers double as a passivating contact to the silicon surface are investigated. Such recombination junctions are a key element in the interconnection of tandem devices with a silicon bottom cell, and ...

2021

Constraining the response factors of an extractive electrospray ionization mass spectrometer for near-molecular aerosol speciation

Julia Schmale, Imad El Haddad, Yandong Tong

Online characterization of aerosol composition at the near-molecular level is key to understanding chemical reaction mechanisms, kinetics, and sources under various atmospheric conditions. The recently developed extractive electrospray ionization time-of-f ...

2021

Analyzing glycans cleaved from a biotherapeutic protein using a combination of ion mobility spectrometry and cryogenic ion spectroscopy

Natalia Yalovenko

The characterization of biomolecules plays a central role in biomedical research. The development of state-of-the-art technologies is needed to make such analyses faster, more sensitive, and more accurate. While mass spectrometry continues to play a centra ...

EPFL2021

Nanoscale Mass-Spectrometry Imaging of Grain Boundaries in Perovskite Semiconductors

Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin, Iwan Zimmermann, Hiroyuki Kanda, Paul Gratia, Tom Theodorus Antonius Lummen

Incorporation of alkali metals such as Cs+, Rb+, and K+ into hybrid organic-inorganic halide lead perovskites (HOIPs) generally improves the optoelectronic properties of HOIPs. However, it is still uncertain how alkali metals interact and distribute within ...

2020

LC-APCI(-)-MS Determination of 1-Chloro-2,4-dinitrobenzene, a Model Substrate for Glutathione S-Transferases

Kristin Schirmer, Alena Tierbach

1-Chloro-2,4-dinitrobenzene (CDNB) is widely used as a model substrate for measuring the enzyme activity of glutathione S-transferases in toxicity studies and in studies focusing on the metabolic capacity of different test systems. To allow the quantificat ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2020

Emulator Design and Generation of Synthetic Dataset in Multi-Ion Sensing

Giovanni De Micheli, Sandro Carrara, Mandresy Ivan Ny Hanitra, Danilo Demarchi

Multi-ion potentiometric sensing becomes challenging for mixed-ion samples in which interfering electrolytes significantly alter the response of each single sensor. Therefore, an emulator based on the phase-boundary potential model is proposed to simulate ...

IEEE2020

A method for quantitative nanoscale imaging of dopant distributions using secondary ion mass spectrometry: an application example in silicon photovoltaics

Franz-Josef Haug, Aïcha Hessler-Wyser, Quentin Thomas Jeangros, Andrea Ingenito, Gizem Nogay, Mario Joe Lehmann

A method for rapid quantitative imaging of dopant distribution using secondary ion mass spectrometry (SIMS) is described. The method is based on SIMS imaging of the cross-section of a reference sample with a known concentration profile. It is demonstrated ...

2019

Ultraslow radiative cooling of Cn- (n=3-5)

Eduardo Carrascosa Casado

Ultraslow radiative cooling lifetimes and adiabatic detachment energies for three astrochemically relevant anions, Cn- (n = 3-5), are measured using the Double ElectroStatic Ion Ring ExpEriment (DESIREE) infrastructure at Stockholm University. DESIREE main ...

AMER INST PHYSICS2019

Investigation of deuterium trapping and release in the JET ITER-like wall divertor using TDS and TMAP

Olivier Sauter, Ambrogio Fasoli, Basil Duval, Stefano Coda, Jonathan Graves, Yves Martin, Duccio Testa, Patrick Blanchard, Henri Weisen, Alessandro Pau, Federico Nespoli, Cristian Sommariva, Jonathan Marc Philippe Faustin, Richard Pitts, Hamish William Patten, Yann Camenen, Samuel Lanthaler, Jan Horacek, Javier García Hernández, Marco Wischmeier, Nicola Vianello, Mikhail Maslov, Yao Zhou, David Pfefferlé, Davide Galassi, Antonio José Pereira de Figueiredo, Liang Yao, Dalziel Joseph Wilson, Bernhard Sieglin, Otto Asunta

Selected set of samples from JET ITER-Like Wall (JET-ILW) divertor tiles exposed both in 2013-2014 and 2011-2014 has been analysed using Thermal Desorption Spectrometry (TDS). The deuterium (D) amounts obtained with TDS were compared with Ion Beam Analysis ...

Elsevier2019

Measurements of ion velocity and wave propagation in a hollow cathode plume

The mechanism responsible for the production of energetic ions in the plume of hollow cathodes for electric propulsion is still an open issue. These ions are of concern to cathode and thruster lifetime, particularly for cathodes operating at high (>20 A) d ...

IOP PUBLISHING LTD2019

A method for improvement of mass resolution and isotope accuracy for laser ablation time-of-flight mass spectrometers

Reto Wiesendanger, Peter Wurz

Accumulation of spectra is a common approach for improvement of the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) in mass spectrometry. However, severe degradation of the overall spectrum can occur if some individual mass spectra, affected by peak broadening, are included i ...

WILEY2019

Maldi device and methods of preparation and use thereof

Hubert Girault, Horst Pick, Liang Qiao, Milica Jovic, Yingdi Zhu

A target plate for enhanced matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization mass spectrometry (MALDI MS) analysis of intact biological entities. The target plate comprises an electrically conductive substrate (1) covered at least partially with immobilised pho ...

2018

Fast H isotope and impurity mixing in ion-temperature-gradient turbulence

Olivier Sauter, Ambrogio Fasoli, Basil Duval, Stefano Coda, Martinus Gijs, Jonathan Graves, Yves Martin, Duccio Testa, Patrick Blanchard, Bruno Emanuel Ferreira De Sousa Correia, Alessandro Pau, Pierre-Thomas Paul Brun, Cristian Sommariva, Henri Weisen, Michele Marin, Richard Pitts, Sun Hee Kim, Yann Camenen, Jan Horacek, Marco Wischmeier, Javier García Hernández, Mikhail Maslov, Miguel Fernández Ruiz, Nicola Vianello, Antonio José Pereira de Figueiredo, Federico Nespoli, Liang Yao, Dalziel Joseph Wilson, Yao Zhou, Robin Humphry-Baker, David Pfefferlé, José Pedro Rebelo Ferreira Marques, Davide Galassi, Ana Francisca Leal Silva Soares, Daniel Scott Alessi, Jonathan Marc Philippe Faustin, Arnout Lodewijk M Beckers, Julio Rodriguez, Jonnathan Cesar Hidalgo Acosta, Hamish William Patten, , , , , , , , ,

Isotope Dependence of Confinement in JET-ILW Deuterium and Hydrogen Plasmas

Henri Weisen

Heat, particle and momentum confinement in L- and H-mode in deuterium, hydrogen and in D/H mixtures have been investigated in JET with the ITER-like wall (JET-ILW). The paper expands on previous work [1,2] by presenting new results on heat, momentum and pa ...

IAEA2018