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Periodic Electrodynamic Focusing Lens for Nanoparticles and Ions < 10 nm

University of California System: University of California, San Diego Technology Transfer Office
posted on 08/23/2010

Aerodynamic lenses are now widely used as a method to generate a particle beam, particularly for small nanoparticles. Aerosol mass spectrometers are commercially available and their integrated aerodynamic lens-nozzle designs has been characterized. [See, for example, Aerosol Science and Technology, 36, 617-631, (2002).] However, the technique has the serious limitation that it is limited to particles > 10 nm.


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Researchers at UC San Diego have invented a lens design addressing this limitation. The present invention utilizes a complex electrodynamic lens system and method of operation that allows the focusing of nanoparticles, such as aerosols, and ions < 10 nm in size.

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