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Department of Chemistry

Ryan Hilger, Ph.D.

Ryan Hilger

Amy Instrumentation Facility Assistant Director

Specialties

  • Mass Spectrometry
  • Ionization
  • Ion detection
  • Data acquisition
  • High Voltage
  • Vacuum

Education

  • B.S. in Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Nebraska
  • Ph.D. in Chemistry, University of Wisconsin
  • Postdoc with Professor Scott A. McLuckey, Purdue Univeristy

Projects

  • Heat coiled tubing reactor
  • Electrestatic Precipitator
  • Nanodesi automated landing software
  • Heterogeneous catalysis reactor automation

Contact Information

BRWN 4135B
560 Oval Drive
West Lafayette, IN 47907
(765)494-5234
Email: rhilger1@purdue.edu 


Publications

Zhu, Q., X. Yang, G. Wang, Y. Yan, J. P. Schlegel, Y. Liu, R. T. Hilger, J. R. Buchanan and M. Ishii (2021). "Two-sensor droplet-capable conductivity probe for measurement in liquid dispersed flows." Ann. Nucl. Energy 150: 107827.

Dziekonski, E. T., J. T. Johnson, R. T. Hilger, C. L. McIntyre, R. E. Santini and S. A. McLuckey (2016). "Voltage-induced frequency drift correction in fourier transform electrostatic linear ion trap mass spectrometry using mirror-switching." Int. J. Mass Spectrom. 410: 12-21.

Fisher, C. M., R. T. Hilger, F. F. Zhao and S. A. McLuckey (2015). "Electroosmotically driven solution mixing in borosilicate theta glass nESI emitters." Journal of Mass Spectrometry 50(9): 1063-1070.

Hilger, R. T., E. T. Dziekonski, R. E. Santini and S. A. McLuckey (2015). "Injecting electrospray ions into a Fourier transform electrostatic linear ion trap." Int. J. Mass Spectrom. 378: 281-287.

Hilger, R. T., R. E. Santini, C. A. Luongo, B. M. Prentice and S. A. McLuckey (2015). "A method for isolating ions in quadrupole ion traps using an excitation waveform generated by frequency modulation and mixing." Int. J. Mass Spectrom. 377: 329-337.

Hilger, R. T., R. E. Santini and S. A. McLuckey (2014). "Tandem Mass Spectrometry in an Electrostatic Linear Ion Trap Modified for Surface-Induced Dissociation." Anal. Chem. (Washington, DC, U. S.) 86(17): 8822-8828.

Hilger, R. T., R. E. Santini and S. A. McLuckey (2014). "Square wave modulation of a mirror lens for ion isolation in a Fourier transform electrostatic linear ion trap mass spectrometer." Int. J. Mass Spectrom. 362: 1-8.

Hilger, R. T., R. E. Santini and S. A. McLuckey (2013). "Nondestructive Tandem Mass Spectrometry Using a Linear Quadrupole Ion Trap Coupled to a Linear Electrostatic Ion Trap." Anal. Chem. (Washington, DC, U. S.) 85(10): 5226-5232.

Hilger, R. T., P. J. Wyss, R. E. Santini and S. A. McLuckey (2013). "Absorption mode Fourier transform electrostatic linear ion trap mass spectrometry." Anal. Chem. (Washington, DC, U. S.) 85(17): 8075-8079.

Hassell, K. M., R. T. Hilger and S. A. McLuckey (2011). "The effect of reagent charge state on the charge inversion efficiency of singly charged polyatomic ions in the gas phase." Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 13(41): 18418-18427.