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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 11, 2025
Filed:
Mar. 07, 2023
Thermo Fisher Scientific (Bremen) Gmbh, Bremen, DE;
Hamish Stewart, Bremen, DE;
Dmitry Grinfeld, Bremen, DE;
Bernd Hagedorn, Bremen, DE;
Robert Ostermann, Bremen, DE;
Thermo Fisher Scientific (Bremen) GmbH, Bremen, DE;
Abstract
Systems, methods, and computer-readable media described provide multi-reflection time-of-flight analyser (e.g. of a type in which the ion beam is allowed to spread out relatively broadly) and methods for use in a zoom mode, in which time-of-flight perturbations induced by reflections at the deflector are cancelled out or removed, such that they do not give rise to a significant increase in the arrival time spread of ions at the detector. This accordingly facilitates high resolution operation of the analyser in the zoom mode. Furthermore, this is done in a way which allows the analyser to remain drift focused, which in turn means that the analyser can be straightforwardly and seamlessly switched between its normal mode of operation and the zoom mode of operation.