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Title: Linear electric field time-of-flight ion mass spectrometer

Patent ·
OSTI ID:941137

A linear electric field ion mass spectrometer having an evacuated enclosure with means for generating a linear electric field located in the evacuated enclosure and means for injecting a sample material into the linear electric field. A source of pulsed ionizing radiation injects ionizing radiation into the linear electric field to ionize atoms or molecules of the sample material, and timing means determine the time elapsed between ionization of atoms or molecules and arrival of an ion out of the ionized atoms or molecules at a predetermined position.

Research Organization:
Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE
DOE Contract Number:
W-7405-ENG-36
Assignee:
ALO
Patent Number(s):
7,385,188
Application Number:
11/354,353
OSTI ID:
941137
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

References (3)

Time‐of‐Flight Mass Spectrometer with Improved Resolution journal December 1955
Mass dispersion and mass resolution in crossed homogeneous electric and magnetic fields: the Wien velocity filter as a mass spectrometer journal August 1975
A Mass Spectrometer for Isotope and Gas Analysis journal June 1947

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