Improved ion extraction from a linear octopole ion trap: SIMION analysis and experimental demonstration
- 1 November 2002
- journal article
- Published by American Chemical Society (ACS) in Journal of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry
- Vol. 13 (11), 1304-1312
- https://doi.org/10.1016/s1044-0305(02)00622-0
Abstract
Externally generated ions are accumulated in a linear octopole ion trap before injection into our 9.4 T Fourier transform ion cyclotron resonance (FT-ICR) mass analyzer. Such instrumental configuration has previously been shown to provide improved sensitivity, scan rate, and duty cycle relative to accumulated trapping in the ICR cell. However, inefficient ion ejection from the octopole currently limits both detection limit and scan rate. SIMION 7.0 analysis predicts that a dc axial electric field inside the linear octopole ion trap expedites and synchronizes the efficient extraction of the octopole-accumulated ions. Further SIMION analysis optimizes the ion ejection properties of each of three electrode configurations designed to produce a near-linear axial potential gradient. More efficient extraction and transfer of accumulated ions spanning a wide m/z range promises to reduce detection limit and increase front-end sampling rate (e.g., to increase front-end resolution for separation techniques coupled with FT-ICR mass analysis). Addition of the axial field improves experimental signal-to-noise ratio by more than an order of magnitude.Keywords
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