The electron stimulated desorption of anions from self-assembled monolayers of double stranded DNA is reported. Desorption of the oxygen and nitrogen containing anions O ̄ , OH ̄ , CN ̄ , OCN ̄ , and OCNH ̄ is induced by the impact of 0.1-20 eV electrons. The anion desorption yields, measured as a function of incident electron energy exhibit pronounced maxima that can be attributed to dissociative e...

Electron stimulated desorption (ESD) of fragment anions and thermal desorption spectroscopy (TDS) is applied to study reactions in thin films of a few CF COOH/CF COOD monolayers following low energy electron impact (0–20 eV). In ESD, the fragment ions H−/D− and F− are observed v