Abstract
A variety of oxygen-containing diatomic dications XO2+ can be produced in the gas phase by prolonged high-current 160- ion surface bombardment (oxygen ion beam sputtering) of a wide range of sample materials. These gas-phase species were detected by mass spectrometry at half-integer m/z values for ion flight times of the order of ∼10-5s. Examples provided here include ion mass spectra of AsO2+, GaO 2+, Sb02+ Ag02+ CrO2+ and BeO 2+. A detailed theoretical study of the diatomic dication system BeO2+ is also presented.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 315-324 |
Number of pages | 10 |
Journal | European Journal of Mass Spectrometry |
Volume | 15 |
Issue number | 2 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 2009 |
Keywords
- Ab initio calculations
- Diatomic dications
- Electronic structure determination
- Mass spectrometry
- Metastable gas-phase molecules
- Oxygen ion beam sputtering
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
- Spectroscopy