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Potential distribution and transmission characteristics in a curved quadrupole ion guide

Xiaoyu Zhou1, Caiqiao Xiong, Gaoping Xu

  • 1Key Laboratory of Analytical Chemistry for Living Biosystems, Institute of Chemistry Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.

Journal of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry
|April 8, 2011
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