TY - JOUR AU - Roth, Nils AU - Awel, Salah AU - Horke, Daniel AU - Küpper, Jochen TI - Optimizing aerodynamic lenses for single-particle imaging JO - Journal of aerosol science VL - 124 IS - arXiv:1712.01795 SN - 0021-8502 CY - Amsterdam PB - Elsevier M1 - PUBDB-2018-02659 M1 - arXiv:1712.01795 SP - 17 - 29 PY - 2018 N1 - © Elsevier Ltd. AB - A numerical simulation infrastructure capable of calculating the flow of gas and the trajectories of particles through an aerodynamic lens injector is presented. The simulations increase the fundamental understanding and predict optimized injection geometries and parameters. Our simulation results were compared to previous reports and also validated against experimental data for 500 nm polystyrene spheres from an aerosol-beam-characterization setup. The simulations yielded a detailed understanding of the radial phase-space distribution and highlighted weaknesses of current aerosol injectors for single-particle diffractive imaging. With the aid of these simulations we developed new experimental implementations to overcome current limitations. LB - PUB:(DE-HGF)16 UR - <Go to ISI:>//WOS:000441729700003 DO - DOI:10.1016/j.jaerosci.2018.06.010 UR - https://bib-pubdb1.desy.de/record/407877 ER -