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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 13, 2012
Filed:
Apr. 16, 2009
Applicant:
Peter Panayi, Norfolk, GB;
Inventor:
Peter Panayi, Norfolk, GB;
Assignee:
Cameca Instruments, Inc., Mahwah, NJ (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01J 49/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A reflectron () for deflecting an ion from a specimen in a time-of-flight mass spectrometer comprises a front electrode () and a back electrode (). At least one of the front and back electrodes () is capable of generating a curved electric field. The front and back electrodes are configured to perform time focusing and resolve an image of a specimen.