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Date of Patent:
May. 03, 2016

Filed:

Aug. 25, 2014
Applicants:

Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, Madison, WI (US);

University of Hamburg, Hamburg, DE;

The University of Massachusetts, Boston, MA (US);

Inventors:

Robert H. Blick, Hamburg, DE;

Jonathan Rodriguez, Sun Prairie, WI (US);

Hyunseok Kim, Madison, WI (US);

Zlatan Aksamija, Hadley, MA (US);

Wolfgang Hansen, Hamburg, DE;

Christian Heyn, Lueneburg, DE;

Assignees:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01N 21/64 (2006.01); H01J 49/26 (2006.01); H01J 49/02 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01N 21/64 (2013.01); H01J 49/025 (2013.01); H01J 49/26 (2013.01);
Abstract

A detector suitable for mass spectroscopy uses a thin membrane that converts the kinetic energy of impinging molecules into corresponding photons, the latter detected with a suitable photosensor. The arrival of molecules at the membrane is detected by detection of the corresponding photons.


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