H - Electricity – 01 – J
Patent
H - Electricity
01
J
H01J 49/42 (2006.01)
Patent
CA 2577411
A method of processing ions in a quadrupole rod set us provided. The method comprises a) establishing and maintaining a two- dimensional substantially quadrupole field for processing the ions, the field having a quadrupole harmonic with amplitude A2 and a selected higher order harmonic with amplitude Am wherein m is an integer greater than 2, and the magnitude of Am is greater than 0.1% of the magnitude of A2; b)introducing the ions to the two-dimensional substantially quadrupole field and subjecting the ions to both the quadrupole harmonic and the higher order harmonic of the field to radially confine ions having Mathieu parameters a and q within a stability region defined in terms of the Mathieu parameters a and q; c) adding an auxiliary excitation field to transform the stability region into a plurality of smaller stability islands defined in terms of the Mathieu parameters a and q; and, d) adjusting the two-dimensional substantially quadrupole field to place ions within a selected range of mass-to-charge ratios within a selected stability island in the plurality of stability islands to impart stable trajectories to the selected ions within the selected range of mass-to-charge ratios for transmission through the rod set, and to impart unstable trajectories to unselected ions outside of the selected range of mass-to-charge ratios to filter out such ions.
Douglas Donald
Konenkov Nikolai
Zhao Xianzhen
Bereskin & Parr Llp/s.e.n.c.r.l.,s.r.l.
The University Of British Columbia
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