Abstract:
There is provided a mass spectrometer that can appropriately maintain the atmospheric pressure of a vacuum chamber, and a method of controlling the same. An example of a mass spectrometer according to the present invention includes first vacuum chambers, first vacuum pumps, an atmospheric pressure relating value acquiring unit, and an adjustment unit configured to adjust the effective exhaust velocity of the first vacuum pumps, and controllers. The controllers control the adjustment unit corresponding to an atmospheric pressure relating value.
Abstract:
We provide a method of assessing an acquired mass spectrum, the method including the steps of: obtaining a model isotope pattern for a chemical compound of known elemental composition, providing mass spectrum data obtained from a mass spectrometer in analysis of the chemical compound, and performing location matching by comparing the mass spectrum data to the isotope pattern to match a reference location in the isotope pattern with respective corresponding candidate locations in the mass spectrum data, the location matching including: determining a likelihood function over the mass spectrum data, representing the likelihood that each location in the mass spectrum data correctly corresponds to the reference location of the isotope pattern, determining a set of candidate locations each corresponding to a local maxima in the determined likelihood function, and at each candidate location, determining an associated error bar based on the curvature of the likelihood function at that location.
Abstract:
A package-level, integrated high-vacuum ion-chip enclosure having improved thermal characteristics is disclosed. Enclosures in accordance with the present invention include first and second chambers that are located on opposite sides of a chip carrier, where the chambers are fluidically coupled via a conduit through the chip carrier. The ion trap is located in the first chamber and disposed on the chip carrier. A source for generating an atomic flux is located in the second chamber. The separation of the source and ion trap in different chambers affords thermal isolation between them, while the conduit between the chambers enables the ion trap to receive the atomic flux.
Abstract:
A first rod electrode set has a first center axis, into which ions and air current are introduced. A second rod electrode set has a second center axis at a distance from the first center axis, from which the ions are discharged. A power supply applies voltages to the first rod electrode set and the second rod electrode set. The first rod electrode set and the second rod electrode set have a region where the sets overlap each other in the longitudinal direction, and form a single multipole ion guide by being combined to each other in the region. Different offset DC voltages are applied to the first rod electrode set and the second rod electrode set, respectively, and a DC potential for moving the ions to the second rod electrode set in the region is formed, the ions having been guided by the first rod electrode set.
Abstract:
The invention proposes a mass spectrometry apparatus for ultraviolet light ionization of neutral lost molecules, and a method for operating same. The mass spectrometry apparatus for ultraviolet light ionization of neutral lost molecules includes a quadrupole tandem special linear ion trap mass analyzer, a vacuum ultraviolet lamp, a lamp front shutter, a gradient vacuum system and other necessary components for the mass spectrometry apparatus. In addition, the invention also proposes a method for operating the apparatus to efficiently store ions, fragment and analyze the ions, perform ultraviolet efficient ionization on lost neutral molecules, and then analyze the ions.
Abstract:
A gas sensor includes a first chamber containing a plurality of evenly spaced rods having voltages applied thereto to cause gas ions in the first chamber to move in a direction from a first end of the first chamber to a second end of the first chamber and a second chamber coupled to the second end of the first chamber and having at least one ion detector, where ions pass from the first chamber to the second chamber through a plurality of channels between the first chamber and the second chamber and are detected by the at least one ion detector. The voltages applied to the rods may include a first voltage applied to a first subset of the rods and a second voltage applied to a second subset of the rods, each of first and second voltages containing a DC component and an AC component.
Abstract:
An ion detection system for a detecting a quantity of ions exiting from a mass analyzer of a mass spectrometer comprises: (a) photon generating means configured to receive the quantity of ions and to generate a quantity of photons that is proportional to the quantity of ions; (b) a linear array of photo-detectors configured along a line for detecting a variation of a portion of the quantity of generated photons along the line; and (c) an optical system for directing the portion of the quantity of photons from the photon generating means to the linear array of photo-detectors comprising: (c1) a first cylindrical lens having a first lens axis disposed parallel to the line; (c2) a second cylindrical lens or rod lens having a second lens axis disposed parallel to the line; and a doublet lens.
Abstract:
In order to provide a highly reliable organic EL element, a first step in which a deposition material is heated and vaporized in a deposition chamber in which the pressure is reduced and a second step in which a layer included in an EL layer is deposited in the deposition chamber are performed while exhaustion is performed and the partial pressure of water in the deposition chamber is measured with a mass spectrometer. Alternatively, the deposition chamber in the deposition apparatus includes a deposition material chamber and is connected to an exhaust mechanism. The deposition material chamber is separated from the deposition chamber by a sluice valve, includes a deposition material holding portion including a heating mechanism, and is connected to a mass spectrometer and an exhaust mechanism.
Abstract:
An ion mobility separator or spectrometer is disclosed comprising an inner cylinder and an outer cylinder defining an annular volume through which ions are transmitted. Spiral electrodes a-f are arranged on a surface of the inner cylinder and/or on a surface of the outer cylinder. A first device is arranged and adapted to maintain a DC electric field and/or a pseudo-potential force which acts to urge ions from a first end of the ion mobility separator or spectrometer to a second end of the ion mobility separator or spectrometer. A second device is arranged and adapted to apply transient DC voltages to the one or more spiral electrodes in order to urge ions towards the first end of the ion mobility separator or spectrometer. The net effect is to extend the effective path length of the ion mobility separator.
Abstract:
An ion detection system for a detecting a quantity of ions exiting from a mass analyzer of a mass spectrometer comprises: (a) photon generating means configured to receive the quantity of ions and to generate a quantity of photons that is proportional to the quantity of ions; (b) a linear array of photo-detectors configured along a line for detecting a variation of a portion of the quantity of generated photons along the line; and (c) an optical system for directing the portion of the quantity of photons from the photon generating means to the linear array of photo-detectors comprising: (c1) a first cylindrical lens having a first lens axis disposed parallel to the line; (c2) a second cylindrical lens or rod lens having a second lens axis disposed parallel to the line; and a doublet lens.