Author： Kim Shin
Publisher： Springer Publishing Company
ISSN： 1044-0305
Source： Journal of The American Society for Mass Spectrometry, Vol.24, Iss.1, 2013-01, pp. : 167-170
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Abstract
We report here that a commercial silicon-on-insulator (SOI) wafer offers an opportunity for laser desorption/ionization (LDI) of peptide molecules, which occurs directly from its flat surface without requiring special surface preparation. The LDI-on-SOI exhibits intact ionization of peptides with a good detection limit of lower than 20 fmol, of which the mass range is demonstrated up to insulin with citric acid additives. The LDI process most likely arises from laser-induced surface heating promoted by two-dimensional thermal confinement in the thin Si surface layer of the SOI wafer. As a consequence of the thermal process, the LDI-on-SOI method is also capable of creating post-source decay (PSD) of the resulting peptide LDI ions, which is suitable for peptide sequencing using conventional TOF/TOF mass spectrometry.
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