Medium Vacuum Electron Emitter as Soft Atmospheric Pressure Chemical Ionization Source for Organic Molecules

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• 作者：Sascha Liedtke ; Norman Ahlmann ; Ulrich Marggraf ; Alexander Schütz ; Wolfgang Vautz ; Joachim Franzke
• 刊名：Analytical Chemistry
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：May 3, 2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：88
• 期：9
• 页码：5003-5008
• 全文大小：328K
• 年卷期：0
• ISSN：1520-6882

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An electron emitter as a soft atmospheric pressure chemical ionization source is presented, which operates at inner pressures of the device in the medium vacuum range (>10^–3 hPa). Conventional nonradioactive electron emitters require high vacuum (<10^–6 hPa) to prevent electrical sparkovers. The emitter presented here contains structural modifications of an existing setup, which inhibits electrical breakdowns up to 10^–2 hPa at 8 kV acceleration voltage. The increased inner pressure reduces the ionization efficiency until 10^–3 hPa—achievable without a turbomolecular pump—by 2% compared to high-vacuum conditions. This can be compensated with an increase of the electron source output. The functionality of this ion source is demonstrated with mass spectrometric and ion mobility measurements of acetone, eucalyptol, and diisopropyl methanephosphonate. Additional mass spectrometric measurements of 20 different organic compounds demonstrate the soft characteristics of this ionization source