Airborne nanoparticle characterization with a digital ion trap–reflectron time of flight mass spectrometer

This article is the first in a series of reviews intended as a tutorial providing the inexperienced, as well as the experienced, reader with an overview of principles of peptide and protein fragmentation in mass spectrometers for protein identification, surveying of the different types of instrument configurations and their combinations for protein identification. The first mass spectrometer was developed in 1899, but it took almost a century for the instrument to become a routine analytical method in proteomic research when fast atom bombardment ionization was developed, followed shortly by soft desorption/ionization methods, such as MALDI and electrospray ionization, to volatize biomolecules with masses of tens of kiloDaltons into the gas phase under vacuum pressure without destroying them. Thereafter, other soft ionization techniques that offered ambient conditions were also introduced, such as atmospheric pressure MALDI, direct analysis in real time, atmospheric-pressure solid analysis probe and hybri...

Utility of mass spectrometry for proteome ana lysis: part I. Conceptual and experimental approaches

Development of a low power, high mass range mass spectrometer for Mars surface analysis

In this work, a “brick” size miniature mass spectrometer (28 cm × 21 cm × 16 cm) was developed and characterized, which was enabled by the development of a new frequency scanning technique. Different from the conventional voltage scanning method or the digital waveforms used on a digital ion trap, a sinusoidal frequency scanning technique was developed to drive the linear ion trap of the brick mass spectrometer (BMS). Both an in-vacuum plasma ionization source and an electrospray ionization source were coupled with this BMS for the analyses of volatile and nonvolatile samples. Stability diagram, sensitivity, mass resolution, and mass range of the BMS were explored. This new frequency scanning technique could not only reduce the size and power consumption of a miniature mass spectrometer but also improve its analytical performances, especially in terms of mass range and resolution. Analogous to the development of cell phones, this BMS would be an important step from “brick” mass spectrometer to “cell” mass...

A "Brick Mass Spectrometer" Driven by a Sinusoidal Frequency Scanning Technique.

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Digital asymmetric waveform isolation (DAWI) in a digital linear ion trap.

A quadrupolar electric field driven by a rectangular wave voltage can be used for mass-selective storage and analysis. The ion motion in such an electric field is derived, and the stability of ions is presented in the a-q diagram that is commonly used for sinusoidal wave quadrupole mass spectrometry in association with the solution of the Mathieu equation. The pseudo-potential well is discussed in an approximation that leads to the relation of secular frequency to operating parameters. A scheme for a digital ion trap mass spectrometer is described, based on this theory. An ion optics simulation was performed to check the theory of resonant ejection, and to prove the feasibility of the mass scan method for a practical ion trap of such geometry. Copyright © 2005 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

S. Kumashiro

Papers

Ion motion in the rectangular wave quadrupole field and digital operation mode of a quadrupole ion trap mass spectrometer.