A new multichannel restrictor for supercritical fluid chromatography h
as been developed. Four construction parameters (number, length and in
ner diameter of channels, and their geometrical arrangement) can be va
ried so that restrictors with different flow characteristics can be de
signed. The effective ratio, L/d, in which L is the length of a channe
l and d is the inner diameter, is about two orders lower than values a
ssumed for porous frit restrictors.