11:30 AM - 11:45 AM
[16a-Z34-10] Study on Pulsed Vacuum Electrospray Droplet Ion Beams for TOF-SIMS Applications
Keywords:electrospray, secondary ion mass spectrometry
We have studied to use a vacuum electrospray droplet ion (V-EDI) beam as a primary ion beam for time-of-flight secondary ion mass spectrometry (TOF-SIMS). In a general TOF-SIMS instrument, it is necessary to produce a shortly (< several tens of ns) pulsed primary ion beam, but it is impossible to produce a shortly pulsed V-EDI beam. Therefore, a preliminary research to produce a pulse source of the V-EDI beam was conducted.