Abstract
Optically detected magnetophoretic acceleration mass analysis of an individual micro-particle in an atmosphere has been remarkably improved in sensitivity by using a reflective microscope objective, by which forward scattered light from a particle could be effectively collected. From the light-scattering simulation, the detection limit for the radius of a micro-particle was estimated to be smaller than 0.4μm, and about 60 times intensity enhancement was observed for a polystyrene particle with a radius of 2.8μm. For both paramagnetic and diamagnetic micro-particles, the mass magnetic susceptibility and the relaxation time could be determined without knowing any parameters of the particles. From the relaxation time, the mass of a particle was obtained if the radius or the density of the particle was known. For a test sample silica particles were used to adsorb paramagnetic dysprosium(III), the surface concentration of dysprosium(III) on a single particle could be successfully determined by use of this method.
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