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[10a-N402-7] Sputtered Volumes Produced by Vacuum Electrospray Droplet Ion Beams obtained from capillaries with different inner diameter
Keywords:cluster ion beam, secondary ion mass spectrometry
We have studied charged droplets 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 semi-commercial time-of-flight SIMS system, and the secondary ion yields produced by the V-EDI beams obtained from capillaries with different inner diameter 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.