Effect of Ar/H2 and Kr/H2 mixtures as discharge gas on the ion intensity in dc glow discharge mass spectrometry |
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Authors: | Morimasa Saito |
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Affiliation: | (1) National Research Institute for Metals, 1-2-1, Sengen, Tsukuba-shi, Ibaraki 305, Japan, JP |
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Abstract: | In dc glow discharge mass spectrometry, the addition of small amounts of H2 to pure Ar as discharge gas has greatly increased the ion intensities of elements compared with the conventional method using pure Ar. This phenomenon was also observed for the addition of H2 to pure Kr. The reason for the increase of the ion intensities of elements was studied by using a Kr gas mixture containing 0.2% (v/v) H2. The ion intensities of the elements P, Se and As (whose first ionization potentials are higher than the energy levels of the excited state of Kr) did not increase even if the Kr/H2 gas mixture was used. The results show that the addition of H2 significantly contributed to increasing the number of metastable argon or krypton atoms (Penning ionization). Received: 4 November 1995/Revised: 5 January 1996/Accepted: 10 January 1996 |
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