Open AccessMapping the stability diagram of a digital ion trap (DIT) mass spectrometer varying the duty cycle of the trapping rectangular waveform
Author(s) -
Alberto Berton,
Pietro Traldi,
Li Ding,
Francesco L. Brancia
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
journal of the american society for mass spectrometry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.961
H-Index - 127
eISSN - 1879-1123
pISSN - 1044-0305
DOI - 10.1016/j.jasms.2007.12.012
Subject(s) - duty cycle , waveform , ion trap , quadrupole ion trap , chemistry , trapping , trap (plumbing) , ion , stability (learning theory) , mass spectrometry , diagram , analytical chemistry (journal) , physics , voltage , chromatography , computer science , ecology , organic chemistry , quantum mechanics , machine learning , database , meteorology , biology
In a digital ion trap the beta(r) and beta(z) boundary lines of the stability diagram are determined experimentally using an innovative approach. In the rectangular waveform-driven digital ion trap (DIT) manipulation of the waveform duty cycle allows introduction of a precisely defined DC quadrupole component into the main trapping field. Variation of the duty cycle can be controlled at software level without any hardware modification. The data generated use peptide ions, which produce stability diagrams in good agreement with the theoretical stability diagrams previously determined by simulation studies.