1984 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
Application of SIMS Technique to Organic Polymers
Authors : K. Okuno, S. Tomita, A. Ishitani
Published in: Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry SIMS IV
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Included in: Professional Book Archive
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SIMS has started to be used to study organic polymers [1, 2] and biological specimens [3] because of its potential capabilities such as high sensitivity and good lateral and depth resolution [4]. Three major fields of SIMS application to polymers are 1) identification of chemical structure [1, 2], 2) analysis of low concentration inorganic elements and, hopefully, 3) analysis of organic materials in polymer matrix, among which the first one has mainly been pursued up to now by analyzing a characteristic mass fragmentation pattern from a polymer.