Homogenization of the pulsed electric field created in a ring stack ion accelerator
An accelerator and pulse technology, applied in the field of mass spectrometry, which can solve problems such as the inapplicability of Ohm's law
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[0065] The present invention generally relates to a ring stack accelerator (RSA) for use in a mass spectrometer, which may be utilized in response to the application of a voltage pulse (e.g., a radio frequency (RF) voltage pulse) across the stack accelerator. A substantially homogeneous (uniform) electric field is generated within the volume of and at least along its longitudinal axis. The ring stack accelerator targets an electric field with two states (on and off). The on state is a non-zero electric field of the magnitude necessary to cause the ions to focus at the detector in space time velocity. The field-on state must have a period longer than the time it takes for the slowest, highest mass-to-charge ratio ions to leave the accelerator. This period is about 1 to 20 microseconds depending on the mass-to-charge ratio of the ion of interest. For this entire duration, the pulse must maintain the electric field constant. The field must not change while the ions are in the ...
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