Radiofrequency potential

There are other important properties tliat can be measured from microwave and radiofrequency spectra of complexes. In particular, tire dipole moments and nuclear quadmpole coupling constants of complexes may contain useful infonnation on tire stmcture or potential energy surface. This is most easily seen in tire case of tire dipole moment. The dipole moment of tire complex is a vector, which may have components along all tire principal inertial axes. 

The Ar-HCl and Ar-HF complexes became prototypes for the study of intennolecular forces. Holmgren et al [30] produced an empirical potential energy surface for Ar-HCl fitted to the microwave and radiofrequency spectra,... 

In connection with the square-wave technique, mention can be made of high-frequency polarography, also called radiofrequency polarography and developed by Barker53, in which a sinusoidal radio-frequency cu, (100kHz to 6.4 MHz) square-wave modulated at co2 (225 Hz) is superimposed on to the dc potential ramp as the wave form includes (apart from additional higher... 

Investigations of the cellular effects of radiofrequency radiation provide evidence of damage to various types of avian and mammalian cells. These effects involve radiofrequency interactions with cell membranes, especially the plasma membrane. Effects include alterations in membrane cation transport, Na+/K+-ATPase activity, protein kinase activity, neutrophil precursor membrane receptors, firing rates and resting potentials of neurons, brain cell metabolism, DNA and RNA synthesis in glioma cells, and mitogenic effects on human lymphocytes (Cleary 1990). 

A quadrupole mass analyzer is made of four hyperbolic or circular rods placed in parallel with identical diagonal distances from each other. The rods are electrically connected in diagonal. In addition to an alternating radiofrequency (RE) potential (V), a positive direct current (DC) potential (U) is applied on one pair of rods while a negative potential is applied to the other pair (Fig. 1.17). The ion trajectory is affected in x and y directions by the total electric field composed by a quadrupolar alternating field and a constant field. Because there is only a two-dimensional quadrupole field the ions, accelerated after ionization, maintain their velocity along the z axis. 

Ions generated by an electron beam from a heated filament are passed into a cubic cell where they are held by an electric trapping potential and a constant magnetic field. Each ion assumes a cycloidal orbit at its own characteristic frequency, which depends on mJz the cell is maintained under high vacuum. Originally, these frequencies were scanned by varying the electric field until each cycloidal frequency was, in turn, in resonance with an applied constant radiofrequency. At resonance, the motion of the ions of the same frequency is coherent and a signal can be detected. 

The maximum resolution is given by equation (16.16) where e represents a unit charge, Vz the acceleration potential, L the length of the quadrupole mass filter, r0 the radius of the filter and l/max the maximum voltage of the radiofrequency. 

Shaw, Determining the Potential of Radiofrequency Resonance Absorption Detection of Explosives Hidden in Airline Baggage , SWR1-15-4226-F (1975), (AD A022 111 /9ST) 58) P. 

In a guided ion beam experiment, reactant ions are created in the source region, mass selected by a mass spectrometer (a magnetic sector in our instruments), decelerated to a desired kinetic energy, and injected into a radiofrequency (rf) octopole ion beam guide [10,11]. This device comprises eight rods cylindrically surrounding the ion beam path. Opposite phases of an rf potential... 

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