Research article
A new apparatus designed to accelerate/decelerate and study the surface impact phenomena of charged aerosols and nanoparticles over a wide range of mass-to-charge (m/z) ratios and final velocities is described. A...
EPJ Techniques and Instrumentation 2017 4:2
Published on: 11 April 2017
Research article
High energy influxes increase the complexity of passive calorimetric probe measurements because of an increasing temperature of the surrounding materials like the probe holder. This leads to a distinctively di...
EPJ Techniques and Instrumentation 2017 4:1
Published on: 19 January 2017
Review
Sympathetic cooling of molecular ions with ultracold gases is enabling a new era of research in chemistry and physics. There has been much progress in this new field in the last several years and many unantici...
EPJ Techniques and Instrumentation 2016 3:8
Published on: 7 December 2016
Research Article
Test beam measurements at the test beam facilities of DESY have been conducted to characterise the performance of the EUDET-type beam telescopes originally developed within the EUDET project. The beam telescop...
EPJ Techniques and Instrumentation 2016 3:7
Published on: 4 October 2016
Research Article
The analysis of the ion chemistry of atmospheric pressure plasmas is essential to evaluate ionic reaction pathways during plasma-surface or plasma-analyte interactions. In this contribution, the ion chemistry ...
EPJ Techniques and Instrumentation 2016 3:6
Published on: 2 September 2016
Research Article
We present and discuss in detail the design and characterization of a new linear quadrupole ion trap with additional ion ejection and acceleration electrodes that is coupled to a time-of-flight mass spectromet...
EPJ Techniques and Instrumentation 2016 3:5
Published on: 16 July 2016
Erratum
EPJ Techniques and Instrumentation 2016 3:4
Published on: 24 June 2016
The original article was published in EPJ Techniques and Instrumentation 2015 2:4
Research Article
Self-terminated electrochemical etching is applied to fabricate needle electrodes for ion traps. We study the surface morphology of the electrodes with scanning electron microscopy and atomic force microscopy,...
EPJ Techniques and Instrumentation 2016 3:3
Published on: 17 March 2016
Review
The large electric dipole moments associated with highly excited Rydberg states of atoms and molecules make gas-phase samples in these states very well suited to deceleration and trapping using inhomogeneous e...
EPJ Techniques and Instrumentation 2016 3:2
Published on: 1 March 2016
Research Article
We report on an experimental device that makes it possible to assess the frictional properties of the contact between a slider and a horizontal surface, and to study the resulting trajectories of the slider wh...
EPJ Techniques and Instrumentation 2016 3:1
Published on: 8 February 2016
Review
We use extensive computer simulation to design (and test) a high pressure, fast acting, pulsed, valve that can produce short pulses of gas. We use flow simulations from shaped nozzles to optimize the beam dens...
EPJ Techniques and Instrumentation 2015 2:17
Published on: 29 December 2015
Erratum
EPJ Techniques and Instrumentation 2015 2:16
Published on: 2 November 2015
The original article was published in EPJ Techniques and Instrumentation 2015 2:11
Research article
Raman spectrometry is a powerful technique for the rapid identification of most minerals and organic chemicals without sample preparation. In this context, the European Space Agency (ESA) and NASA selected a R...
EPJ Techniques and Instrumentation 2015 2:15
Published on: 22 September 2015
Review
In the last years, it was demonstrated that neutral molecules can be loaded on a microchip directly from a supersonic beam. The molecules are confined in microscopic traps that can be moved smoothly over the s...
EPJ Techniques and Instrumentation 2015 2:14
Published on: 9 September 2015
Research article
We report a novel experimental setup for studying collision induced products resulting from the interaction of anionic beams with a neutral gas-phase molecular target. The precursor projectile was admitted int...
EPJ Techniques and Instrumentation 2015 2:13
Published on: 21 August 2015
Review
With the Stark deceleration technique, packets of molecules with a tunable velocity, a narrow velocity spread, and a high state purity can be produced. These tamed molecular beams find applications in high res...
EPJ Techniques and Instrumentation 2015 2:12
Published on: 6 August 2015
Review
A Stark decelerator produces beams of molecules with high quantum state purity, and small spatial, temporal and velocity spreads. These tamed molecular beams are ideally suited for high-resolution crossed beam...
EPJ Techniques and Instrumentation 2015 2:11
Published on: 28 July 2015
The Erratum to this article has been published in EPJ Techniques and Instrumentation 2015 2:16
Review
A detailed description of a merged beam apparatus for the study of low energy molecular scattering is given. This review is intended to guide any scientist who plans to construct a similar experiment, and to p...
EPJ Techniques and Instrumentation 2015 2:10
Published on: 25 July 2015
Review
This review provides a detailed overview of the state of the art in tip-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (TERS) and focuses on its applications at the horizon including those in materials science, chemical science ...
EPJ Techniques and Instrumentation 2015 2:9
Published on: 1 July 2015
Review
Raman and Infrared (IR) spectroscopies provide information about the structure, functional groups and environment of the molecules in the sample. In combination with a microscope, these techniques can also be ...
EPJ Techniques and Instrumentation 2015 2:8
Published on: 2 June 2015
Research article
Micro- and nanomechanical analytical devices for diagnostics require small sample volumes, and stable and efficient clamping of the sensors for optimized bioassays. A fully automated device for the readout of ...
EPJ Techniques and Instrumentation 2015 2:7
Published on: 12 May 2015
Review
Stem cell therapy is widely acknowledged as a key medical technology of the 21st century which may provide treatments for many currently incurable diseases. These cells have an enormous potential for cell repl...
EPJ Techniques and Instrumentation 2015 2:6
Published on: 24 March 2015
Research Article
We present a technical overview of a multimodal system combining Raman microspectroscopy and quantitative phase microscopy (QPM), which allows two independent and simultaneous measurements of both the local mo...
EPJ Techniques and Instrumentation 2015 2:5
Published on: 14 March 2015
Research article
We present the development of a microfluidic AFM (atomic force microscope) cantilever-based platform to enable the local dispensing and aspiration of liquid with volumes in the pico-to-femtoliter range. The pl...
EPJ Techniques and Instrumentation 2015 2:4
Published on: 12 March 2015
The Erratum to this article has been published in EPJ Techniques and Instrumentation 2016 3:4
Research Article
We present an experimental set-up permitting Raman and luminescence spectroscopy studies in a commercial Physical Properties Measurement System (PPMS) from Quantum Design. Using this experimental set-up, gaseo...
EPJ Techniques and Instrumentation 2015 2:3
Published on: 27 February 2015
