Study of a cylindrical ion trap supplied by a periodic impulsional potential

This article reports on some theoretical studies concerning the impulsional mode of a cylindrical ion trap (CIT) supplied with a periodic impulsional radio frequency (rf) voltage of the form V ac cos Ω t /(1 − kcos 2Ω t ) with 0 ≤ k < 1. The performance characteristics of CIT impulsional mode, for the twelve stability regions, were computed using fifth order Runge‐Kutta method and were compared to the classical sinusoidal mode k = 0. Also, the results show that, for the same equivalent operating point in two stability diagrams (having the same β z ) the associated modulated secular ion frequencies behavior are the same. Copyright © 2010 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.