摘要:
Disclosed is an ion trap mass spectrometer improved to obtain a high sensitivity without the lowering of resolution. By fitting a mesh electrode to an aperture (an ion sampling aperture or an ion extracting aperture) made in endcap electrodes constituting an ion trap mass analysis region, a radio frequency electric field in the mass analysis region is not disturbed even if the diameter of the aperture is set to a large value to heighten ion transmission efficiency. By fitting a shield electrode for preventing collision of ions with an insulated ring constituting an outer wall of the mass analysis region, charging up of the insulated ring is prevented to improve stability of detection signals. Furthermore, by arranging a shield member for shielding stray charged particles detouring through the circumference of the mass analysis region to approach an ion detector, generation of noises based on these stray charged particles is prevented.
摘要:
A method in which cutting of small droplets, neutral particles or photons through to a slit provided between a differential pumping portion and a mass analysis portion is combined with slight deflection of ions just before introduction of the ions into the mass analysis portion so that noises are greatly reduced without reduction of signals to thereby improve the signal-to-noise ratio which is an index of detecting sensitivity or lower limit.
摘要:
A method in which cutting of small droplets, neutral particles or photons through to a slit provided between a differential pumping portion and a mass analysis portion is combined with slight deflection of ions just before introduction of the ions into the mass analysis portion so that noises are greatly reduced without reduction of signals to thereby improve the signal-to-noise ratio which is an index of detecting sensitivity or lower limit.
摘要:
A mass spectrometer including a sprayer for spraying a sample solution, a needle electrode for ionizing the sample contained in the sample solution, an aperture for introducing the ions of the sample into a lower pressure region having a pressure lower than the pressure of a region in which the needle electrode is disposed, and a mass spectrometric apparatus for analyzing the ions introduced from the aperture. A direction of a spray caused by the sprayer is almost perpendicular to or at an angle with respect to a center axis of the aperture, and a tip of the needle is disposed facing to an electrode having the aperture.
摘要:
A mass spectrometer comprising a passage through which a sample solution flows, the passage including a capillary having an open tip, the sample solution flowing through the capillary out of the open tip of the capillary, a gas passage which forms a gas flow around the open tip of the capillary, the gas flow spraying the sample solution flowing out of the open tip of the capillary, a first electrode which contacts the sample solution flowing in the passage and applies an electric potential to the sample solution flowing in the passage, a second electrode disposed around the capillary near the open tip of the capillary, the second electrode being downstream from the first electrode with respect to a direction in which the sample solution flows in the passage, there being no gap extending downstream from the open tip of the capillary to the second electrode in a direction in which the sample solution flows out of the open tip of the capillary, the second electrode being electrically isolated from the sample solution flowing in the capillary and applying an electric field to the sample solution flowing in the capillary, and an analyzer which analyzes a mass of gaseous ions formed from the sample solution sprayed by the gas flow.
摘要:
A mass spectrometer in which, in order to reduce noise due to other particles (large charge droplets, neutral particles, photons, or the like), the orbit of ions and the orbit of other particles are separated from each other in the inside of a mass analysis region so as to make it possible to prevent the other particles from reaching an ion detection region without using any deflector.
摘要:
In an analytical apparatus, an ion trap mass spectrometer and a detector for detecting ions separated in the mass spectrometer are installed in different chambers. Ions generated from an ion source and passing through two differential pumping chambers into a third chamber containing the detector are deflected from their initial trajectory into the mass spectrometer in a fourth chamber for separation. In a first embodiment, the separated ions are returned along the same path into the detector in the third chamber. According to a second embodiment, the detector is located along the path of ion travel beyond the mass spectrometer, and the separated ions pass through a second orifice in the mass spectrometer and into the detector in the third chamber.
摘要:
A mass spectrometer comprising an ionization means for ionizing sample compounds to be analyzed mass spectroscopically in an atmospheric pressure, a sample solution supply means for supplying a solution containing the sample compounds to the ionization means, means for feeding the ions formed by the ionization means through an aperture disposed in an electrode into a vacuum region, and an ion trap type mass spectroscopic means for mass spectroscopically analyzing ions entered through the aperture into the vacuum region, in which an ion decelerating electric field forming means is disposed between the electrode disposed with the aperture and an electrode disposed with an ion entrance opening for entering the ions into the ion trap type mass spectroscopic means for forming an electric field for decelerating the ions, and the ions injected to the ion trap mass spectroscopic means is lowered. This facilitates accumulation ions in the ion trap mass spectralyzing means even if a high drift voltage is used thereby enabling high sensitivity analysis for polar compounds such as peptides.
摘要:
A mass spectrometer comprising an ionization means for ionizing sample compounds to be analyzed mass spectro-scopically in an atmospheric pressure, a sample solution supply means for supplying a solution containing the sample compounds to the ionization means, means for feeding the ions formed by the ionization means through an aperture disposed in an electrode into a vacuum region and a ion trap type mass spectroscopic means for mass spectroscopically analyzing ions entered through the aperture into the vacuum region, in which an ion decelerating electric field forming means is disposed between the electrode disposed with the aperture and an electrode disposed with an ion entrance opening for entering the ions into the ion trap type mass spectroscopic means for forming an electric field for decelerating the ions, and the ions injected to the ion trap mass spectroscopic means is lowered. This facilitates accumulation ions in the ion trap mass spectralyzing means even if a high drift voltage is used thereby enabling high sensitivity analysis for polar compounds such as peptides.
摘要:
A mass spectrometer including a sprayer for spraying a sample solution, a needle electrode for ionizing the sample contained in the sample solution, an aperture for introducing the ions of the sample into a lower pressure region having a pressure lower than the pressure of a region in which the needle electrode is disposed, and a mass spectrometric apparatus for analyzing the ions introduced from the aperture. A direction of a spray caused by the sprayer is almost perpendicular to a center axis of the aperture and a tip of the needle is disposed facing to an electrode having the aperture.