“…A systematic study of atomic ion yields for Ca, Fe, La, Lu, Mg, Sc, Si and Y from synthetic silicate glasses showed the importance of energy filtering for the reduction of matrix effects. 157 Pyroxene samples were bombarded with O 2 primary ions (0.5-3 nA) while energy filtering with a bandwidth of 20 eV was applied between 0 and 130 eV. The absolute sensitivity of the atomic ions from the minor elements depended non-linearly on the Fe content, and matrix effects decreased with increasing secondary ion energy.…”