Europlanet Distributed RTI Facility – KBSI Nano Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometer (SIMS)

Europlanet Distributed Research and Technology Infrastructure (RTI) Facility – Korea Basic Science Institute (KBSI) Nano Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometer

Average Transnational Access (TA) visit: 7 days

Features:

  • P- Primary Ion : Cs+, O2+, O
  • Smaller beam size to spatial resolution: 50nm
  • Cs+ : 50 nm, O : 200 nm
  • Mass range: 1 to 360 amu
  • High mass resolution: M/dM > 5000
  • Detection limits: ppb ~ ppm levels
  • Five masses parallel detection

Application:

  • Element distribution analysis of cathode, anode materials
  • Depth profiles of impurities in the micro patterns for semiconductors
  • Element distribution analysis of grain boundary segregation in steel
  • High-sensitivity imaging of light elements (including hydrogen)


Contact

You must get in touch with the host facility to discuss the technical feasibility of your proposal before submitting an application. If you do not contact the host, your proposal will not be approved.

Dr. Keewook Yi, Korea Basic Science Institute (KBSI), South Korea.

Email: kyi[at]kbsi.re.kr


Publications related to facility and visits

Report summaries of TA visits to facility

22-EPN3-054: Searching for Biosignatures in Extreme Environments
20-EPN2-108: Ultrastructure and nano-geochemistry of organic materials in 3.4-billion-year-old...


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