The first experimental observation of sequential decay of metastable molecular cluster ions is reported. Nz cluster ions are produced by electron impact ionization of a supersonic Nz cluster beam and analyzed by a double-focusing sector field mass spectrometer (reversed geometry). It is found that m
Observation and investigation of metastable decay series of (N2)n+cluster ions
✍ Scribed by T. D. Märk; P. Scheier
- Publisher
- Springer
- Year
- 1989
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 327 KB
- Volume
- 12
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1434-6060
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