High Duty Cycle Ion Storage/Ion Mobility Separation Mass Spectrometer
First Claim
1. ) A high duty cycle ion storage/ion mobility mass spectrometer, comprising:
- an ion source;
a first ion interface instrument partitioned into one or more confinement channels having predetermined spatial locations provided by desired DC and RF potentials, wherein a first confinement channel of said first ion interface instrument is configured to receive ions of a predetermined mass window from said ion source and adjacent one or more confinement channels (N1) configured within said first ion interface instrument is designed, via ion mobility transport, to receive and thereafter confine selected ions of a smaller fraction of the mass range of said predetermined mass window;
a second ion interface instrument additionally partitioned into one or more confinement channels (N2) also having predetermined spatial locations provided by desired DC and RF potentials, wherein any of said one or more confinement channels (N2) is configured to receive from said one or more confinement channels (N1) configured within said first ion interface instrument, said selected ions of a smaller fraction of the mass range of said predetermined mass window, said second ion interface instrument being additionally configured to transfer such selected ions to successive ion confinement channels; and
one or more mass analyzers having an entrance configured to receive ions transferred from one or more predetermined confinement channels of said second ion interface instrument to enable high throughput mass analysis.
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Abstract
A novel high ion storage/ ion mobility separation mass spectrometer that provides for a high duty cycle of operation is presented herein. In particular, the example embodiments, as disclosed herein, provides for a high ion storage/ion mobility instrument that beneficially includes a two-dimensional (2D) plurality of adjacently arranged ion confinement channels to provide a high storage bank of a desired mass range of ions. Such ions, via ion mobility transport, are separated into smaller fractions of an overall mass window into desired confinement regions of the disclosed 2D confinement channels and thereafter transferred out in a manner so as to enable the aforementioned novel high-duty cycle of sequential operation.
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1. ) A high duty cycle ion storage/ion mobility mass spectrometer, comprising:
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an ion source; a first ion interface instrument partitioned into one or more confinement channels having predetermined spatial locations provided by desired DC and RF potentials, wherein a first confinement channel of said first ion interface instrument is configured to receive ions of a predetermined mass window from said ion source and adjacent one or more confinement channels (N1) configured within said first ion interface instrument is designed, via ion mobility transport, to receive and thereafter confine selected ions of a smaller fraction of the mass range of said predetermined mass window; a second ion interface instrument additionally partitioned into one or more confinement channels (N2) also having predetermined spatial locations provided by desired DC and RF potentials, wherein any of said one or more confinement channels (N2) is configured to receive from said one or more confinement channels (N1) configured within said first ion interface instrument, said selected ions of a smaller fraction of the mass range of said predetermined mass window, said second ion interface instrument being additionally configured to transfer such selected ions to successive ion confinement channels; and one or more mass analyzers having an entrance configured to receive ions transferred from one or more predetermined confinement channels of said second ion interface instrument to enable high throughput mass analysis. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9)
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10. ) A method of mass spectrometric analysis, comprising:
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a) providing an ion interface instrument partitioned into a first confinement channel and adjacent one or more confinement channels (N1), each of which has predetermined fixed spatial locations configured from desired DC and RF potentials, b) providing a packet of ions of a predetermined mass window into said first confinement channel; c) releasing ions of said predetermined mass window from said first confinement channel and locking fractions of said ions into predetermined said adjacent one or more confinement channels (N1) after urging, via ion mobility separation and transport, into said predetermined adjacent one or more confinement channels (N1); d) providing a subsequent packet of ions of said predetermined mass window into said first confinement channel after the transfer of said fractions of said ions of said predetermined mass window into said adjacent one or more confinement channels (N1) configured within said ion interface instrument; e) transferring one or more of more of said fractions of ions of said predetermined mass window to an entrance of one or more mass analyzers; f) mass analyzing said ions of said predetermined mass window; g) repeating steps c) to f);
for any number of a plurality of said subsequent packet of ions of a predetermined mass window, wherein said packet of ions have a mass-to-charge window similar to a mass-to-charge window of any of said subsequent packet of ions. - View Dependent Claims (11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20)
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