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Date of Patent:
Dec. 28, 2021

Filed:

Jul. 26, 2018
Applicant:

Micromass Uk Limited, Wilmslow, GB;

Inventor:
Assignee:

Micromass UK Limited, Wilmslow, GB;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01J 49/40 (2006.01); H01J 49/42 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H01J 49/406 (2013.01); H01J 49/403 (2013.01); H01J 49/4225 (2013.01);
Abstract

Improved multi-pass time-of-flight mass spectrometers MPTOF, either multi-reflecting (MR) or multi-turn (MT) TOF are proposed with elongated pulsed converters—either orthogonal accelerator or radially ejecting ion trap. The converter () is displaced from the MPTOF s-surface of isochronous ion motion in the orthogonal Y-direction. Long ion packets () are pulsed deflected in the transverse Y-direction and brought onto said isochronous trajectory s-surface, this way bypassing said converter. Ion packets are isochronously focused in the drift Z-direction within or immediately after the accelerator, either by isochronous trans-axial lens/wedge () or Fresnel lens. The accelerator is improved by the ion beam confinement within an RF quadrupolar field or within spatially alternated DC quadrupolar field. The accelerator improves the duty cycle and/or space charge capacity of MPTOF by an order of magnitude.


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