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Kevin L. Linker
Researcher at Sandia National Laboratories
Publications - 22
Citations - 518
Kevin L. Linker is an academic researcher from Sandia National Laboratories. The author has contributed to research in topics: Explosive material & Volume (thermodynamics). The author has an hindex of 12, co-authored 22 publications receiving 512 citations.
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Vertical flow chemical detection portal
TL;DR: In this article, a portal apparatus for screening objects or persons for the presence of trace amounts of chemical substances such as illicit drugs or explosives is presented, in which a person may stand, defined by two generally upright sides spanned by a horizontal transom, one or more fans in the transom generate a downward air flow (uni-directional) within the test space.
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Target detection portal
TL;DR: A portal apparatus for screening persons or objects for the presence of trace amounts of target substances such as explosives, narcotics, radioactive materials, and certain chemical materials is proposed in this article.
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Integrated explosive preconcentrator and electrochemical detection system for 2,4,6-trinitrotoluene (TNT) vapor
Karel Cizek,Chad Prior,Chongdee Thammakhet,Michal Galik,Kevin L. Linker,Ray Tsui,Avi Cagan,John Wake,Jeffrey T. La Belle,Joseph Wang +9 more
TL;DR: An integrated explosive-preconcentration/electrochemical detection system for 2,4,6-trinitrotoluene (TNT) vapor is reported on and the integrated device was successfully demonstrated using a sample of solid TNT located upstream of the preconcentrator.
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Human portable preconcentrator system
TL;DR: A preconcentrator system and apparatus suited to human portable use is described in this paper, where sample potentially containing a target chemical substance is drawn into a chamber and through a pervious screen.
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Trace detection and discrimination of explosives using electrochemical potentiometric gas sensors.
Praveen K. Sekhar,Eric L. Brosha,Rangachary Mukundan,Kevin L. Linker,Charles A. Brusseau,Fernando H. Garzon +5 more
TL;DR: Quantitative measurements based on hydrocarbon and nitrogen oxide sensor responses indicated that the detector sensitivity scaled proportionally with the mass of the explosives, and showed that PETN, TNT, and RDX samples could be discriminated from each other by calculating the ratio of nitrogen oxides to hydrocarbon integrated area under the peak.