Abstract
The use of lasers as an ionization source for solid samples is nearly as old as the laser itself. The first papers in this field were published in 1963 [1]. Since then there has been a growing interest as well as a proliferation of publications on this subject, to the extent that a recent bibliography listed nearly 1000 references [2]. The reasons for this increase in popularity are twofold. First, commercial instruments that use lasers as a microprobe have become available in the last five years. Second, the laser is one of a class of “soft” ionization sources that have become popular in organic mass spectrometry for the analysis of nonvolatile and thermally labile materials. The laser is unique as a means of ionizing solids because the ionization mechanism can be altered by simply changing the power density in the focal spot.
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Simons, D.S. (1984). Laser Microprobe Mass Spectrometry. In: Benninghoven, A., Okano, J., Shimizu, R., Werner, H.W. (eds) Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry SIMS IV. Springer Series in Chemical Physics, vol 36. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-82256-8_45
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