Bibliographic Citation

 
7,417,222
Correlation ion mobility spectroscopy
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08/26/2008
US patent application 11/204,268
Pfeifer, Kent B. (Los Lunas, NM); Rohde, Steven B. (Corrales, NM)
Sandia National Laboratories (SNL-NM), Albuquerque, NM
United States Department of Energy
AC04-94AL85000
Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, NM)
Correlation ion mobility spectrometry (CIMS) uses gating modulation and correlation signal processing to improve IMS instrument performance. Closely spaced ion peaks can be resolved by adding discriminating codes to the gate and matched filtering for the received ion current signal, thereby improving sensitivity and resolution of an ion mobility spectrometer. CIMS can be used to improve the signal-to-noise ratio even for transient chemical samples. CIMS is especially advantageous for small geometry IMS drift tubes that can otherwise have poor resolution due to their small size.

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