Towards Nanoscale Molecular Analysis at Atmospheric Pressure by a Near-Field Laser Ablation Ion Trap/Time-of-Flight Mass Spectrometer

2008 ◽  
Vol 80 (17) ◽  
pp. 6537-6544 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas A. Schmitz ◽  
Gerardo Gamez ◽  
Patrick D. Setz ◽  
Liang Zhu ◽  
Renato Zenobi
Keyword(s):  
Laser Ablation ◽  
Mass Spectrometer ◽  
Molecular Analysis ◽  
Atmospheric Pressure ◽  
Ion Trap ◽  
Near Field ◽  
Time Of Flight ◽  
Flight Mass Spectrometer

New perspectives in laser analytics: Resonance-enhanced multiphoton ionization in a Paul ion trap combined with a time-of-flight mass spectrometer

1995 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Bisling ◽  
Hans Jörg Heger ◽  
Walfried Michaelis ◽  
Claus Weitkamp ◽  
Harald Zobel
Keyword(s):  
Mass Spectrometer ◽  
Ion Trap ◽  
Multiphoton Ionization ◽  
Time Of Flight ◽  
Flight Mass Spectrometer ◽  
Paul Ion Trap

scholarly journals Direct Chemical Analysis of Solids by Laser Ablation in an Ion Storage Time-of-Flight Mass Spectrometer

2004 ◽  
Vol 76 (5) ◽  
pp. 1249-1256 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gregory L. Klunder ◽  
Patrick M. Grant ◽  
Brian D. Andresen ◽  
Richard E. Russo
Keyword(s):  
Laser Ablation ◽  
Chemical Analysis ◽  
Mass Spectrometer ◽  
Storage Time ◽  
Time Of Flight ◽  
Flight Mass Spectrometer ◽  
Ion Storage

scholarly journals Laser ablation aerosol particle time-of-flight mass spectrometer (LAAPTOF): performance, reference spectra and classification of atmospheric samples

2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 2325-2343 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiaoli Shen ◽  
Ramakrishna Ramisetty ◽  
Claudia Mohr ◽  
Wei Huang ◽  
Thomas Leisner ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Laser Ablation ◽  
Aerosol Particle ◽  
Mass Spectrometer ◽  
Size Range ◽  
Aerosol Particles ◽  
Time Of Flight ◽  
Polystyrene Latex ◽  
Dust Particles ◽  
Data Set ◽  
Flight Mass Spectrometer

Abstract. The laser ablation aerosol particle time-of-flight mass spectrometer (LAAPTOF, AeroMegt GmbH) is able to identify the chemical composition and mixing state of individual aerosol particles, and thus is a tool for elucidating their impacts on human health, visibility, ecosystem, and climate. The overall detection efficiency (ODE) of the instrument we use was determined to range from  ∼  (0.01 ± 0.01) to  ∼  (4.23 ± 2.36) % for polystyrene latex (PSL) in the size range of 200 to 2000 nm,  ∼  (0.44 ± 0.19) to  ∼  (6.57 ± 2.38) % for ammonium nitrate (NH4NO3), and  ∼  (0.14 ± 0.02) to  ∼  (1.46 ± 0.08) % for sodium chloride (NaCl) particles in the size range of 300 to 1000 nm. Reference mass spectra of 32 different particle types relevant for atmospheric aerosol (e.g. pure compounds NH4NO3, K2SO4, NaCl, oxalic acid, pinic acid, and pinonic acid; internal mixtures of e.g. salts, secondary organic aerosol, and metallic core–organic shell particles; more complex particles such as soot and dust particles) were determined. Our results show that internally mixed aerosol particles can result in spectra with new clusters of ions, rather than simply a combination of the spectra from the single components. An exemplary 1-day ambient data set was analysed by both classical fuzzy clustering and a reference-spectra-based classification method. Resulting identified particle types were generally well correlated. We show how a combination of both methods can greatly improve the interpretation of single-particle data in field measurements.

On-line analysis by capillary separations interfaced to an ion trap storage/reflectron time-of-flight mass spectrometer

1998 ◽  
Vol 794 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 377-389 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jing-Tao Wu ◽  
Mark G Qian ◽  
Michael X Li ◽  
Kefei Zheng ◽  
Peiqing Huang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mass Spectrometer ◽  
Ion Trap ◽  
Time Of Flight ◽  
Flight Mass Spectrometer ◽  
On Line ◽  
Capillary Separations ◽  
Line Analysis

scholarly journals Characterisation of the transfer of cluster ions through an atmospheric pressure interface time-of-flight mass spectrometer with hexapole ion guides

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (10) ◽  
pp. 5231-5246 ◽  
Author(s):  
Markus Leiminger ◽  
Stefan Feil ◽  
Paul Mutschlechner ◽  
Arttu Ylisirniö ◽  
Daniel Gunsch ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mass Spectrometer ◽  
Atmospheric Pressure ◽  
Time Of Flight ◽  
Mass Range ◽  
Transmission Efficiency ◽  
Binding Energies ◽  
Cluster Ions ◽  
Ion Transfer ◽  
Flight Mass Spectrometer ◽  
Ion Guides

Abstract. Here we present an alternative approach of an atmospheric pressure interface (APi) time-of-flight mass spectrometer for the study of atmospheric ions and cluster ions, the so-called ioniAPi-TOF. The novelty is the use of two hexapoles as ion guides within the APi. In our case, hexapoles can accept and transmit a broad mass range enabling the study of small precursor ions and heavy cluster ions at the same time. Weakly bound cluster ions can easily de-cluster during ion transfer depending on the voltages applied to the ion transfer optics. With the example system of H3O+(H2O)n=0-3, we estimate that cluster ions with higher binding energies than 17 kcal mol−1 can be transferred through the APi without significant fragmentation, which is considerably lower than about 25 kcal mol−1 estimated from the literature for APi-TOFs with quadrupole ion guides. In contrast to the low-fragmenting ion transfer, the hexapoles can be set to a high-fragmenting declustering mode for collision-induced dissociation (CID) experiments as well. The ion transmission efficiency over a broad mass range was determined to be on the order of 1 %, which is comparable to existing instrumentation. From measurements under well-controlled conditions during the CLOUD experiment, we demonstrate the instrument's performance and present results from an inter-comparison with a quadrupole-based APi-TOF.

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