ABSTRACT
Accurate performance criteria or specifications must be available to determine the suitability of a detector for a specific application. This is necessary, not only to compare its performance with alternatives supplied by other instrument manufactures, but also to determine the optimum chromatography system with which it must be used to achieve the maximum efficiency. The specifications should be presented in a standard form and in standard units, so that detectors that function on widely different principles can be compared. The major detector characteristics that fulfill these requirements together with the units in which they are measured are summarized in table 1.
