Time-of-Flight Mass Spectrometric Analysis of Ionic Liquid Electrospray Emission: Effects of Liquid Constituents and Ion Transport on Emission of Binary Ionic Liquid Mixtures

Ionic liquid ions sources (ILIS) are under investigation for their application in micro-propulsion for small spacecraft as well as their potential bene?ts for mass spectrometry. Micro-fabricated ILIS based thrusters have been under investigation at the École Politechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), the Massachusetts Institute of Technology,...