Radiant energy – Ionic separation or analysis – Methods
Patent
1994-08-30
1995-11-14
Berman, Jack I.
Radiant energy
Ionic separation or analysis
Methods
250290, 250292, H01J 4942
Patent
active
054669316
ABSTRACT:
A mass spectrometry method in which notch-filtered noise is applied to an ion trap to resonate all ions except selected parent ions out of the region of the trapping field. Preferably, the trapping field is a quadrupole trapping field defined by a ring electrode and a pair of end electrodes positioned symmetrically along a z-axis, and the filtered noise is applied to the ring electrode
(rather than to the end electrodes) to eject unwanted ions in radial directions (toward the ring electrode) rather than toward a detector mounted along the z-axis. Application of the filtered noise to the trap in this manner can significantly increase the operating lifetime of such an ion detector. Also preferably, the trapping field has a DC component selected so that the trapping field has both a high frequency and low frequency cutoff, and is incapable of trapping ions with resonant frequency below the low frequency cutoff or above the high frequency cutoff. Application of the filtered noise signal of the invention to such a trapping field is functionally equivalent to filtration of the trapped ions through a notched bandpass filter having such high and low frequency cutoffs. Application of filtered noise in accordance with the invention has several significant advantages over the conventional techniques it replaces, including avoidance of accumulation of contaminating ions during the process of storing desired parent ions, ejection of unwanted ions in directions away from an ion detector to enhance the detector's operating life, rapid ejection of unwanted ions having mass-to-charge ratio below a minimum value, above a maximum value, and outside a window (between the minimum and maximum values) determined by the filtered noise signal.
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Berman Jack I.
Beyer James
Teledyne ET a div. of Teledyne Industries
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