TY  - JOUR
AB  - A recently developed novel intense rare-gas excimer vacuum ultraviolet (VUV) light source, the electron beam-pumped excimer lamp (EBEL), has been applied to the soft single-photon ionization (SPI) of organic molecules in a compact orthogonal acceleration time-of-flight mass spectrometer (oaTOFMS). The SPI-oaTOFMS system was applied to the on-line monitoring of tobacco smoke. With this setup, it was possible to analyze the composition of individual puffs of cigarette smoke. Furthermore, a gas chromatograph (GC) was coupled to the EBEL SPIoaTOFMS system. Soft photo-ionization represents an additional separation dimension. By combination of the gas chromatographic and the soft-ionization mass spectroscopic separation dimensions, a truly multidimensional comprehensive analytical method could be derived.
AU  - Zimmermann, R.
AU  - Mühlberger, F.
AU  - Fuhrer, K.*
AU  - Gonin, M.*
AU  - Welthagen, W.
C1  - 3268
C2  - 25374
SP  - 24-31
TI  - An ultracompact photo-ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometer with a novel vacuum ultraviolet light source for on-line detection of organic trace compounds and as a detector for gas chromatography.
JO  - J. Mater. Cycles Waste Manag.
VL  - 10
IS  - 1
PB  - Springer
PY  - 2008
SN  - 1438-4957
ER  -