SIMS Typical Applications
Some typical applications for SIMS that the laboratory has used the instrument for are listed below:
Typical Applications
- Routine metal component batch release - protection against surface contamination / alloying element surface segregation in a furnace heat treatment process.
- Checks for weak boundary/ surface segregation organic layers affecting paint or adhesive adhesion.
- Improvement of chemical cleaning or etching processes.
- Drying stain root cause investigations.
- Localised chemical contaminant analysis and identification.
- Metallic component emissivity process rejects due to ineffective thermal blackening.
- Sputtered layer process characterisation and checks of target end of life.
- Surface segregation of heater coating contaminants.
- Corrosion failures due to electrochemical action looking for corrosive species and reaction products in combination with SEM
- Investigation of product and in-service corrosion failures and identification of chemicals which could promote it.
- Use of tracer elemental isotopes.
- Analysis of metal coated glass to determine phthalate and cleaning chemical surface contamination distributions.
- Contamination of PCB electrical contacts determination of source.
- Root cause investigations delamination of printed layers in security materials
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