SWIFTSIN: A High-Resolution Ion Isolation Waveform for the Miniaturized Linear ion Trap Mass Spectrometer by Coarse to Fine Excitation

26 September 2022, Version 1
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Abstract

To figure out the reason for the drawback of the SWIFT waveform and realize the high-resolution ion isolation on the miniaturized linear ion trap mass spectrometer, we studied the efficiency that ions can be excited under different excitation periods and amplitudes at different frequencies and compared the overlap rates of the effective excitation bandwidths of the adjacent ions. According to this, we purposed a new coarse-to-fine isolation waveform named SWIFTSIN. By superposing one or more sinusoidal waveforms on the SWIFT waveform and modulating the phases of the superposed sinusoidal waveforms, the generated SWIFTSIN waveform achieved unit mass isolation on the miniaturized linear ion trap mass spectrometer without reducing the intensity of the target ion. The isolation ability of the SWIFTSIN waveform was verified by isolating a single isotope peak in the mixed samples.

Keywords

Ion Isolation
Linear ion Trap
Miniaturized Mass Spectrometer

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