Chemical Sciences: A Manual for CSIR-UGC National Eligibility Test for Lectureship and JRF/Plasma desorption mass spectrometry

Plasma desorption ionization mass spectrometry (PDMS; also called fission fragment ionization) is a mass spectrometry technique in which ionization of material in a solid sample by bombarding it with ionic or neutral atoms formed as a result of the nuclear fission of a suitable nuclide, typically the Californium isotope 252Cf. References Macfarlane, R. D.; Torgerson, D. F., Californium-252 Plasma Desorption Mass Spectroscopy. Science 1976, 191, 920-925. Hilf, E.R. Approaches to plasma desorption mass spectrometry by some theoretical physics concepts Int. J. Mass Spectrom. Ion Proc. 126, 25 (1993).