Spectrometer with axial field

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1997-02-06

1998-12-08

Anderson, Bruce

Radiant energy

Ionic separation or analysis

With sample supply means

250292, B01D 5944, H01J 4900

Patent

active

058473866

ABSTRACT:
In a mass spectrometer, typically a quadrupole, one of the rod sets is constructed to create an axial field, e.g. a DC axial field, thereon. The axial field can be created by tapering the rods, or arranging the rods at angles with respect to each other, or segmenting the rods, or by providing a segmented case around the rods, or by providing resistively coated or segmented auxiliary rods, or by providing a set of conductive metal bands spaced along each rod with a resistive coating between the bands, or by forming each rod as a tube with a resistive exterior coating and a conductive inner coating, or by other appropriate methods. When the axial field is applied to Q0 in a tandem quadrupole set, it speeds passages of ions through Q0 and reduces delay caused by the need to refill Q0 with ions when jumping from low to high mass in Q1. When used as collision cell Q2, the axial field reduces the delay needed for daughter ions to drain out of Q2. The axial field can also be used to help dissociate ions in Q2, either by driving the ions forwardly against the collision gas, or by oscillating the ions axially within the collision cell.

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