title: Super-Atmospheric Pressure Ion Sources: Application and Coupling to API Mass Spectrometer.
abstract: Pressurizing the ionization source to gas pressure greater than atmospheric pressure is a new tactic aimed at further improving the performance of atmospheric pressure ionization (API) sources. In principle, all API sources, such as ESI, APCI and AP-MALDI, can be operated at pressure higher than 1 atm if suitable vacuum interface is available. The gas pressure in the ion source can have different role for different ionization. For example, in the case of ESI, stable electrospray could be sustained for high surface tension liquid (e.g., pure water) under super-atmospheric pressure, owing to the absence of electric discharge. Even for nanoESI, which is known to work well with aqueous solution, its stability and sensitivity were found to be enhanced, particularly in the negative mode when the ion source was pressurized. For the gas phase ionization like APCI, measurement of gaseous compound also showed an increase in ion intensity with the ion source pressure until an optimum pressure at around 4-5 atm. The enhancement was due to the increased collision frequency among reactant ion and analyte that promoted the ion/molecule reaction and a higher intake rate of gas to the mass spectrometer. Because the design of vacuum interface for API instrument is based on the upstream pressure of 1 atm, some coupling aspects need to be considered when connecting the high pressure ion source to the mass spectrometer. Several coupling strategies are discussed in this paper.
authors.affiliation: Interdisciplinary Graduate School of Medicine and Engineering, University of Yamanashi.
authors.forename: Lee Chuin
authors.initials: LC
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.affiliation: Clean Energy Research Center, University of Yamanashi.
authors.forename: Md Matiur
authors.initials: MM
authors.lastname: Rahman
authors.affiliation: Clean Energy Research Center, University of Yamanashi.
authors.forename: Kenzo
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Hiraoka
keywords: corona discharge ionization; electrospray; field desorption; gaseous breakdown; high pressure ion sources; probe electrospray
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