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The effect of ion energy on reactivity and species selectivity in hexapole collision/reaction cell ICP-MS
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posted on 2008-01-21, 12:34 authored by Matthew A. Dexter, Helen Reid, Barry SharpThis paper describes experiments aimed at discriminating the different effects of ion energy in collision/reaction
cell ICP-MS. It is demonstrated that the input ion energy, as determined by the plasma offset potential and ion
energy distribution, is a key determinant of cell reactivity and this is termed the ion kinetic energy effect
(IKEE). The ion kinetic energy is varied by alteration of the potential difference between the plasma and the
hexapole cell. The plasma offset potential and ion energy distribution are not accurately known but are inferred
from ‘‘stopping curves’’ produced by varying the pole bias of the quadrupole analyser. Kinetic energy
discrimination (KED), where the difference in bias potentials between the quadrupole mass analyser and the
hexapole cell is exploited to reject slow cell-formed ions, is shown to be a different effect. It can be used to
change the relative levels of polyatomic ions arriving at the detector. The influence of IKEE and KED on the
levels of plasma and analyte oxide (MO1) ions and on the 21(H3O)1/36Ar1 reactivity indicator ratio are
considered. It is shown that IKEE can be used to influence the reactive attenuation of argide ions and the
production of MO1 in the cell. KED is shown to preferentially reject cell-formed MO1 from the mass analyser.
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Citation
O'CONNOR, C., LANDON, M.R. and SHARP, B.L., 2002. The effect of ion energy on reactivity and species selectivity in hexapole collision/reaction cell ICP-MS. Journal of analytical atomic spectrometry, 17, pp. 676–681Publisher
© RSC PublishingPublication date
2002Notes
This article is Restricted Access. It was published in the journal, Journal of analytical atomic spectrometry [© RSC Publishing] and is available at: http://www.rsc.org/jaasISSN
0267-9477Language
- en