著者
浅川 大樹 森 邦彦 平岡 賢三
出版者
日本質量分析学会
雑誌
Journal of the Mass Spectrometry Society of Japan (ISSN:13408097)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.55, no.3, pp.127-135, 2007 (Released:2007-06-15)
参考文献数
35
被引用文献数
4 4

A new ionization method, electrospray droplet impact ionization (EDI), has been developed for matrix-free secondary-ion mass spectrometry (SIMS). The charged droplets formed by electrospraying 1 M acetic acid aqueous solution are sampled through an orifice with a diameter of 400 μm into the first vacuum chamber, transported into a quadrupole ion guide, and accelerated at 10 kV after exiting the ion guide. The droplets impact on a dry solid sample (no matrix used) deposited on a stainless steel substrate. The secondary ions formed by the impact are transported to a second quadrupole ion guide and are mass-analyzed by an orthogonal time-of-flight mass spectrometer. EDI/SIMS was found to be an easy to operate and versatile method for molecular-level surface analysis.