Plasma-desorption mass spectrometry

Plasma desorption mass spectrometry

Schematic representation of a plasama desorption time-of-flight mass spectrometer.
Acronym PDMS
Classification Mass spectrometry
Analytes Organic molecules
Biomolecules
Other techniques
Related Matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization
Fast atom bombardment
Secondary ion mass spectrometry

Plasma desorption ionization mass spectrometry (PDMS; also called fission fragment ionization) is a mass spectrometry technique in which ionization of material in a solid sample by bombarding it with ionic or neutral atoms formed as a result of the nuclear fission of a suitable nuclide, typically the Californium isotope 252Cf.

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References

  1. Macfarlane, R. D.; Torgerson, D. F., Californium-252 Plasma Desorption Mass Spectroscopy. Science 1976, 191, 920-925.
  2. Hilf, E.R. Approaches to plasma desorption mass spectrometry by some theoretical physics concepts Int. J. Mass Spectrom. Ion Proc. 126, 25 (1993).