Molecular secondary ion mass spectrometry with a liquid metal ion primary source

1983 ◽  
Vol 55 (8) ◽  
pp. 1318-1323 ◽  
Author(s):  
Douglas F. Barofsky ◽  
Ulrich. Giessmann ◽  
Anthony E. Bell ◽  
Lynwood W. Swanson
1994 ◽  
Vol 65 (7) ◽  
pp. 2276-2280 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kaoru Umemura ◽  
Hiroyasu Shichi ◽  
Setsuo Nomura

1993 ◽  
Vol 64 (5) ◽  
pp. 1146-1149 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hisayoshi Yurimoto ◽  
Yoshiharu Mori ◽  
Hironori Yamamoto

Author(s):  
Bruno Schueler ◽  
Robert W. Odom

Time-of-flight secondary ion mass spectrometry (TOF-SIMS) provides unique capabilities for elemental and molecular compositional analysis of a wide variety of surfaces. This relatively new technique is finding increasing applications in analyses concerned with determining the chemical composition of various polymer surfaces, identifying the composition of organic and inorganic residues on surfaces and the localization of molecular or structurally significant secondary ions signals from biological tissues. TOF-SIMS analyses are typically performed under low primary ion dose (static SIMS) conditions and hence the secondary ions formed often contain significant structural information.This paper will present an overview of current TOF-SIMS instrumentation with particular emphasis on the stigmatic imaging ion microscope developed in the authors’ laboratory. This discussion will be followed by a presentation of several useful applications of the technique for the characterization of polymer surfaces and biological tissues specimens. Particular attention in these applications will focus on how the analytical problem impacts the performance requirements of the mass spectrometer and vice-versa.


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