SSIMS problem-solving

Later it was found that the polluting lubricant droplets originating from the transport belts used in the production they had fallen into the paint bath and prevented adhesion of the paint to the metal. It can be concluded that the high sensitivity of SSIMS in the detection of submonolayer coverage of organic species makes it an extremely powerful tool for solving such interface problems. 

The data show that SSIMS can be used as a tool for characterizing the different steps in the production of biosensors, or even for sequencing. Similarly, SSIMS can be used to solve a variety of problems in bioanalytical chemistry, e. g. screening of combinatorial libraries, characterizing Langmuir-Blodgett layers, etc. 

The PMMA and PET data show clearly the limitations of the ISS technique in providing the intrinsic composition of the outermost surface of polymers no static conditions for ISS analysis on polymers has been achieved with acceptable signal/noise ratio. Nevertheless, it has been shown elsewhere (15.16) that ISS, used with other complementary surface techniques, may be helpful for solving practical problems related to the polymers surface. Static SIMS has been shown to be more suitable than ISS for the surface analysis of polymers. ISS and SSIMS... 

It will be shown here, taking four selected examples, how SSIMS with ToF analyzers can be used to solve surface-related problems. All examples have originated directly from a production site or are related closely to development and production problems. 

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