Abstract
Miniature atom and ion sources have been developed which mount directly onto the mass spectrometer ion source, within the vacuum chamber. The new sources are inexpensive to construct and require no external mounting flange. The use of an ion versus atom beam has been found to be unimportant, although the particle mass and impact energy have important effects on the intensity of quasimolecular ions, apparently due to the deposited momentum. A model of ionization of samples suspended in a liquid matrix and bombarded by energetic particles is proposed, in which ionization occurs in the “gas phase” by a charge-cascade mechanism similar to chemical ionization.
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