Articles | Volume 7, issue 1
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-7-95-2014
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-7-95-2014
Research article
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14 Jan 2014
Research article |  | 14 Jan 2014

A fast and easy-to-implement inversion algorithm for mobility particle size spectrometers considering particle number size distribution information outside of the detection range

S. Pfeifer, W. Birmili, A. Schladitz, T. Müller, A. Nowak, and A. Wiedensohler

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