3:15 PM - 3:30 PM
[8p-Z25-8] Study on Size Distributions of Vacuum Electrospray Droplet Ions
Keywords:cluster ion, electrospray, secondary ion mass spectrometry
We have studied droplet ions produced by electrospray of aqueous solutions as a massive cluster beam for secondary ion mass spectrometry (SIMS) to much improve the ionization efficiencies. In the previous studies, the prototype of a vacuum electrospray droplet ion (V-EDI) gun was installed in a time-of-flight secondary ion mass spectrometer, and the secondary ion yields produced by the V-EDI beams were measured for several organic compounds. In this study, the size distributions of the V-EDI beams and sputtered volumes produced by the beams will be evaluated by the impact marks measured by a scanning probe microscope.