Time-of-flight transient

Khan RUA, Poplavskyy D, Kreouzis T, Bradley DDC (2007) Hole mobility within arylamine-containing polyfluorene copolymers a time-of-flight transient-photocurrent study. Phys Rev B 75 035215... 

FIGURE 10.33. Time-of-flight transients for (a) a neat PFO film and (b) a PFO film doped with 2.5% TPP by weight. (From Ref. 67.)... 

Fig. 11 Representative time-of-flight transients for 2,2//-bi-9,9/-spirobifluorene (2.1 [im thick) a hole, E = 4.83 x 104 V/cm, b electron, E = 9.53 x 104 V/cm. Insets of a and b are double logarithmic plots of a and b, respectively. Used with permission [180]...

FIGURE 10.17 (a) Integral-mode time-of-flight transients recorded for a 700 nm thick, P3HT/PCBM (1 2) solar... 

If samples are introduced batchwise, then each one enters the flame as a plug, and the elements are measured transiently. If more than one m/z ration must be examined, the analyzer needs to be a quadrupole or time-of-flight instrument. 

The main implications of the new remote detection methodology are the sensitivity enhancement, which can be several orders of magnitude in certain applications, the option to study flow transiently with time-of-flight techniques and the broadening of the application range of NMR and MRI to samples that were previously... 

Fig. 6 Electron time-of-flight photocurrent transients of solution-cast film of EHO-OPPE (L=8 pm), measured at 295 K and an electric field of 2.5-10 V cm in (a) linear and (b) double logarithmic plots. Reproduced with permission from [61]...

However, nowadays some other different mass spectrometers are used for ICP-MS time-of-flight (TOP) systems for multielemental analysis of transient signals, ion trap analysers for ion storage, multicollector instruments for precise isotope ratio measurements and double-focusing sector field mass spectrometers for high mass resolution, but still the majority of instruments are equipped with quadrupole filters, which are simpler and cheaper. 

It appears, therefore, that real-time studies of these reactions should allow one to examine the nature of the transformation and the validity of the diradical hypothesis. We recently reported direct studies of the femtosecond dynamics of the transient diradical structures. The aim was at freezing the diradicals in time in the course of the reaction. Various precursors were used to generate the diradicals and to monitor the formation and the decay dynamics of the reaction intermediate(s). The parent (cyclopentanone) or the intermediate species was identified distinctly using time-of-flight mass spectrometry. The concept behind the experiment and some of the results are given in Fig. 16. 

Signals from laser ablation ICP-MS are transient and can vary widely over time. Therefore, a simultaneous detection system, using time-of-flight mass spectrometry [56] or a multiple detector sector-based mass spectrometer [57-59] is preferable. Quadrupole mass spectrometers can be used, with some limitations, if signals are properly acquired and processed [60]. 

Figure 15 Time-of-flight photocurrent transients for different thicknesses.

Figure 16. Transient photocurrent signal from a time-of-flight measurement of a photorefractive polymer composite containing 47.5 % electro-optic dye (EHDNPB), 1 % TNF with PVK polymer making up the remainder 21 V was applied across the 100 nm polymer film and a 10 nm thick rhodamine 6G charge generation layer was used. The hole mobility in this material is thus...

FIGURE 10.7. Time-of-flight current transient for a PFO film. Measurements were performed on a 3-/xm-thick film at an electric field of 160 kY/cm. (From Ref. 25.)... 

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