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High Performance Micromachined Planar Field-Asymmetric Ion Mobility Spectrometers for Chemical and Biological Compound Detection
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 February 2011
Abstract
The micromachined Planar High Field Asymmetric Waveform Ion Mobility Spectrometer (PFAIMS) is a novel detector for chemical and biological sensing applications. This detector fills an unmet market need, providing spectrometer capabilities and extremely high sensitivity, at a cost comparable to stand-alone sensors. The PFAIMS is quantitative, and has detection limits down to the parts-per-trillion. The performance of the PFAIMS in a number of applications ranging from industrial to biomedical, where it is used as both a stand alone sensor, and as a gas chromatographic detector are demonstrated. These applications include the detection of xylene isomers and non-invasive medical diagnosis through breath analysis.
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