Luria K, Lavie N, Even U
Sackler School of Chemistry, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 69978, Israel.
Rev Sci Instrum. 2009 Oct;80(10):104102. doi: 10.1063/1.3244085.
We present a new excitation source for pulsed supersonic beams. The excitation is based on dielectric barrier discharge in the beam. It produces cold beams of metastable atoms, dissociated neutral atoms from molecular precursors, and both positive and negative ions with high efficiency and reliability.