%0 Journal Article
%T Gas phase sorting of nanoparticles
%A Hendrik Ulbricht
%A Martin Berninger
%A Sarayut Deachapunya
%A Andre Stefanov
%A Markus Arndt
%J Physics
%D 2007
%I arXiv
%X We discuss Stark deflectometry of micro-modulated molecular beams for the enrichment of biomolecular isomers as well as single-wall carbon nanotubes and we demonstrate the working principle of this idea with fullerenes. The sorting is based on the species-dependent polarizability-to-mass ratio $\alpha/m$. The device is compatible with a high molecular throughput, and the spatial micro-modulation of the beam permits to obtain a fine spatial resolution and a high sorting sensitivity.
%U http://arxiv.org/abs/0708.1936v1