METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ION MANIPULATION USING MESH IN A RADIO FREQUENCY FIELD
First Claim
1. In a mass spectrometer, an guide comprising:
- a mesh electrode having cells of a size ranging from 10 μ
m to 1 mm;
a space above said mesh electrode for transporting ions from an external ion source into the mass spectrometer;
a second electrode positioned behind said mesh electrode at a distance comparable to a cell size of said mesh electrode; and
a radio frequency voltage supply coupled between said mesh and second electrodes to provide a radio frequency field above the mesh electrode for repelling the ions.
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Abstract
Ion manipulation systems include ion repulsion by an RF field penetrating through a mesh. Another comprises trapping ions in a symmetric RF field around a mesh. The system uses macroscopic parts, or readily available fine meshes, or miniaturized devices made by MEMS, or flexible PCB methods. One application is ion transfer from gaseous ion sources with focusing at intermediate and elevated gas pressures. Another application is the formation of pulsed ion packets for TOF MS within trap array. Such trapping is preferably accompanied by pulsed switching of RF field and by gas pulses, preferably formed by pulsed vapor desorption. Ion guidance, ion flow manipulation, trapping, preparation of pulsed ion packets, confining ions during fragmentation or exposure to ion to particle reactions and for mass separation are disclosed. Ion chromatography employs an ion passage within a gas flow and through a set of multiple traps with a mass dependent well depth.
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48 Claims
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1. In a mass spectrometer, an guide comprising:
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a mesh electrode having cells of a size ranging from 10 μ
m to 1 mm;a space above said mesh electrode for transporting ions from an external ion source into the mass spectrometer; a second electrode positioned behind said mesh electrode at a distance comparable to a cell size of said mesh electrode; and a radio frequency voltage supply coupled between said mesh and second electrodes to provide a radio frequency field above the mesh electrode for repelling the ions. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36)
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37. A method of ion manipulation for use in a mass spectrometer, the method comprising:
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providing a mesh electrode having cells of a size ranging from 10 μ
m to 1 mm;providing a space above the mesh electrode for transporting ions from an external ion source into the mass spectrometer; providing a second electrode behind the mesh electrode at a distance comparable to cell size of the mesh electrode; and applying an RF field penetrating through the mesh electrode to repel the ions. - View Dependent Claims (39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48)
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38. A method of ion manipulation for use in a mass spectrometer, the method comprising:
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providing a mesh electrode having cells of a size ranging from 10 μ
m to 1 mm;providing a space above the mesh electrode for transporting ions from an external ion source into the mass spectrometer; providing a second electrode behind the mesh electrode at a distance comparable to cell size of the mesh electrode; and applying a radio frequency field substantially symmetrically around said mesh electrode for trapping ions.
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