Abstract
In this work, we employ highly charged ions to study the sputtering of positive molecular fragments from two different alkanethiol self-assembled monolayers (SAMs) on gold surfaces: undecanethiol and dodecanethiol. The SAMs are bombarded with a pulsed Arq+ beam (3<q<12) with kinetic energies ranging from 1 to 15 keV. The desorbed positive molecular ions were detected and analyzed from time-of-flight spectra, and thereby the masses and yields of secondary ions were obtained. The proton yields are dependent on the charge state of the incident ion. On the other hand, the positive molecular ion yields, such as CnHm+, are charge state independent. The positive molecular ion yields decay with the molecular size n.
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