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Title: Buffer gas cooling and mixture analysis

Patent ·
OSTI ID:1425867

An apparatus for spectroscopy of a gas mixture is described. Such an apparatus includes a gas mixing system configured to mix a hot analyte gas that includes at least one analyte species in a gas phase into a cold buffer gas, thereby forming a supersaturated mixture to be provided for spectroscopic analysis.

Research Organization:
Harvard Univ., Cambridge, MA (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE
DOE Contract Number:
FG02-02ER15316
Assignee:
President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, MA)
Patent Number(s):
9,909,998
Application Number:
14/391,379
OSTI ID:
1425867
Resource Relation:
Patent File Date: 2013 Mar 13
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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Ion Mobility Spectrometer patent-application August 2008
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Intense atomic and molecular beams via neon buffer-gas cooling journal May 2009
Device for collecting samples patent May 1989
Constant pressure gas cell patent September 1993
Buffer-gas cooling of NH via the beam loaded buffer-gas method journal November 2004
Buffer-gas cooling of atomic and molecular beams journal October 2002

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