Mass spectrometers
AssigneeThe University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology
InventorsMichael Barber, Robert D. Sedgwick, Lester C. E. Taylor
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Abstract
In improved mass spectrometers of the double focussing zero second-order aberration type with first-order spectrograph properties, parameters are related by specific equations as a result of which the five aberration coefficients B.sub.1, B.sub.2, B.sub.11, B.sub.12 and B.sub.22 can all be simultaneously zero.
Claims10
A spectrometer comprising an electrostatic analyser and a magnet producing a radial electrostatic field and a homogeneous magnetic field respectively, so arranged in tandem that an ion optical beam passing through them is normal to the entry and exit boundaries of the electrostatic field and to the inner face of the magnetic field adjacent to the analyser, but non-normal to the outer face of the magnetic field, the deflection of the ion-optical beam in the electrostatic and magnetic fields being in the same sense, characterised in that the parameters (1'.sub.e /R.sub.e), .phi..sub.e, R.sub.e /R.sub.m), d,/R.sub.m .epsilon.', (R.sub.m /R") .phi..sub.m, .epsilon." and (1".sub.m /R.sub.m), have values in the following ranges:
- .phi..sub.m --64.2619.degree. to 90.000.degree.
- .epsilon.'--zero
- .phi..sub.e --155.2559.degree. to 159.0990.degree.
- .epsilon."---57.8691.degree. to -45.0000.degree.
- (1'.sub.e /R.sub.e)--0.8558 to 0.7071
- 1".sub.m /R.sub.m --0.2727 to 0.0000
- (R.sub.e R.sub.m)--+.infin. to 3.6336
- (d/R.sub.m)--4.7930 .times.10.sup.5 to 0.8348
- (R.sub.m /R'---1.2222 to 0.7854
- wherein the above symbols have the following meanings:
- '.sub. e --the distance from the ion source to the entrance to the electrostatic field when the beam passes first through the electrostatic field, or the corresponding field to the aberration-free focal point when the beam passes first through the electromagnet;
- R.sub.e --the radius of curvature of the mean beam axis in the electrostatic field;
- R.sub.m --the radius of curvature of the mean beam axis in the magnetic field;
- .phi..sub.e --the angle of deflection of the beam in the electrostatic field;
- .phi..sub.m --the angle of deflection of the beam in the magnetic field;
- d--the distance separating the electrostatic and magnetic fields along the path of the beam;
- .alpha.'--the angle of the beam to the normal to the inner face of the magnetic field, i.e. zero;
- .alpha."--the angle of the beam to the normal to the outer face of the magnetic field;
- R'--the radius of curvature of the inner face of the magnetic field, and
- 1".sub.m --the distance from the outer face of the magnetic field to the aberration-free focal point when the beam passes first through the electrostatic analyser, or the corresponding distance from the ion source to the outer face of the magnetic field when the beam passes first through the electromagnet,
- the parameters being related by following equations 1 to 7:
- ##EQU2## ##EQU3## ##EQU4## ##EQU5## ##EQU6## ##EQU7## ##EQU8##
A spectrograph comprising an electrostatic analyser producing a radial electrostatic field forward of a magnet producing a homogeneous magnetic field so arranged in tandem that an ion optical beam passing through them is normal to the entry and exit boundaries of the electrostatic field and to the inner face of the magnetic field adjacent to the analyser but non-normal to the outer face of the magnetic field, the deflection of the ion-optical beam in the electrostatic and magnetic fields being in the same sense, characterized in that the parameters 1'.sub.e /R.sub.e, .phi..sub.e, R.sub.e /R.sub.m, d/R.sub.m, .epsilon.', R.sub.m /R' .phi..sub.m, .epsilon."and 1".sub.m /R.sub.m having values in the following ranges:
- .phi..sub.m --64.2619.degree.to 90.000.degree.
- .epsilon.'--zero
- .phi..sub.e --155.2559.degree. to 159. 0990.degree.
- .epsilon."---57.8691.degree. to -45.0000.degree.
- 1'.sub.e /R.sub.e --0.8558 to 0.7071
- 1".sub.m R.sub.m --0.2727 to 0.0000
- R.sub.e /R.sub.m --+.infin. to 3.6336
- d/R.sub.m --4.7930 .times.10.sup.5 to 0.8348
- R.sub.m /R'---1.2222 to 0.7854
- wherein the above symbols have the following meanings:
- '.sub. e --the distance from the ion source to the entrance to the electrostatic field when the beam passes first through the electrostatic field, or the corresponding field to the aberration-free focal point when the beam passes first through the electromagnet;
- R.sub.e --the radius of curvature of the mean beam axis in the electrostatic field;
- R.sub.m --the radius of curvature of the mean beam axis in the magnetic field;
- .phi..sub.e --the angle of deflection of the beam in the electrostatic field;
- .phi..sub.m --the angle of deflection of the beam in the magnetic field;
- d--the distance separating the electrostatic and magnetic fields along the path of the beam;
- .epsilon.'--the angle of the beam to the normal to the inner face of the magnetic field, i.e. zero;
- .epsilon."--the angle of the beam to the normal to the outer face of the magnetic field;
- R'--the radius of curvature of the inner face of the magnetic field, and
- 1".sub.m --the distance from the outer face of the magnetic field to the aberration-free focal point when the beam passes first through the electrostatic analyser, or the corresponding distance from the ion source to the outer face of the magnetic field when the beam passes first through the electromagnet,
- the parameters being related by following equations 1 to 7:
- ##EQU9## ##EQU10## ##EQU11## ##EQU12## ##EQU13## ##EQU14## ##EQU15##
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.