Particle size dependent response of aerosol counters

Autor: O. Preining, M. Colhoun, G.P. Reischl, A. Ankilov, A.A. Lushnikov, Wladyslaw W. Szymanski, Paul E. Wagner, T.C. O'Connor, W. Winklmayr, D. Kaller, F. McGovern, G.J. Sem, V. Zagaynov, A. Baklanov, J. Podzimek, Aron Vrtala, R. Mavliev, Yu. Julanov, K.-H. Enderle, J. Gras, R. Rudolf, A. Lindner
Rok vydání: 2002
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Zdroj: Atmospheric Research. 62:209-237
ISSN: 0169-8095
DOI: 10.1016/s0169-8095(02)00011-x
Popis: During an international workshop at the Institute for Experimental Physics of the University of Vienna, Austria, which was coordinated within the Committee on Nucleation and Atmospheric Aerosols (IAMAS-IUGG), 10 instruments for aerosol number concentration measurement were studied, covering a wide range of methods based on various different measuring principles. In order to investigate the detection limits of the instruments considered with respect to particle size, simultaneous number concentration measurements were performed for monodispersed aerosols with particle sizes ranging from 1.5 to 50 nm diameter and various compositions. The instruments considered show quite different response characteristics, apparently related to the different vapors used in the various counters to enlarge the particles to an optically detectable size. A strong dependence of the 50% cutoff diameter on the particle composition in correlation with the type of vapor used in the
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