EP0199455B1 - Einführung einer Plasmaprobe in eine Vakuumkammer - Google Patents
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- EP0199455B1 EP0199455B1 EP19860301974 EP86301974A EP0199455B1 EP 0199455 B1 EP0199455 B1 EP 0199455B1 EP 19860301974 EP19860301974 EP 19860301974 EP 86301974 A EP86301974 A EP 86301974A EP 0199455 B1 EP0199455 B1 EP 0199455B1
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- orifice
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- H—ELECTRICITY
- H01—ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
- H01J—ELECTRIC DISCHARGE TUBES OR DISCHARGE LAMPS
- H01J49/00—Particle spectrometers or separator tubes
- H01J49/02—Details
- H01J49/10—Ion sources; Ion guns
- H01J49/105—Ion sources; Ion guns using high-frequency excitation, e.g. microwave excitation, Inductively Coupled Plasma [ICP]
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- This invention relates to method and apparatus for sampling an inductively generated plasma through an orifice into a vacuum chamber and to method and apparatus for mass analysis using such sampling.
- the invention relates to an alternative to the method and apparatus described in my U.S. patent No. 4,501,965, which alternative can also be used in conjunction with the method and apparatus shown in that patent. The present invention will be described with reference to mass analysis.
- the present invention supplements the arrangement shown in my above identified U.S. patent.
- the voltage swing in the plasma was greatly reduced, but some residual voltage swing remains because of heating currents in the plasma and because of other effects not fully understood. At least the voltage from the heating currents cannot be eliminated. The residual voltage swing may still cause some residual arcing, particularly adjacent the entrance to the second stage of the vacuum chamber shown in such U.S. patent.
- Use of the invention shown in my above identified U.S. patent, combined with RF biasing of the orifice plate into the second stage of the vacuum chamber according to the present invention, has been found to produce a further improvement in ion signal transmission into the second stage of the vacuum chamber.
- the present invention provides apparatus for sampling a plasma into a vacuum chamber comprising:
- Fig. 1 shows a plasma tube 10 around which is wound an electrical induction coil 12.
- the carrier gas e.g. argon
- used to form the plasma is supplied from a source 14 and is directed by a conduit 16 into the plasma tube 10.
- a further stream of the carrier gas is directed from the source 14 through an inner tube 18 within the plasma tube 10 and exits via a flared end 20 just upstream of the coil 12.
- the sample gas containing the trace substance to be analyzed is supplied in a carrier gas, e.g. argon, from source 22 and is fed into the plasma tube 10 through a tube 24 within and coaxial with the tube 18.
- a carrier gas e.g. argon
- a sample of the RF voltage is picked off the generator 26 via lead 58, adjusted in phase at phase adjusting network 60, adjusted in amplitude in amplifier 62, and applied via lead 64 to the sampler plate 32.
- the sampler plate 32 is d.c. electrically insulated from ground by insulating ring 66 but may have a considerable capacitance to ground. No special means (of the kind shown in my above identified U.S. patent) were used to reduce the voltage swing in the plasma 24.
- the ion optic system 56' may more favourably accept an ion beam if the skimer plate 46' has a constant potential difference with respect to the plasma 30'. Ion optic transmission depends on the ion energy, which depends partly on the voltage on the skimmer plate 46' and partly on the voltage in the plasma. If the voltage difference between the skimmer plate 46' and the plasma 30' is kept constant, then it appears that the ion optic system 56' may be better able to transmit a consistently high proportion of the ions which enter it, as opposed to an arrangement in which the voltage is constantly varying.
- ion optics lens systems may more favorably accept an ion beam if the skimmer plate 46' is a few volts positive or negative with respect to the plasma.
- a suitable RF bias may be expected to optimize the ion transmission through the ion optics lens system 56.
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Applications Claiming Priority (2)
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CA000479934A CA1246246A (en) | 1985-04-24 | 1985-04-24 | Method and apparatus having rf biasing for sampling a plasma into a vacuum chamber |
CA479934 | 1985-04-24 |
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EP0199455A2 EP0199455A2 (de) | 1986-10-29 |
EP0199455A3 EP0199455A3 (en) | 1987-05-13 |
EP0199455B1 true EP0199455B1 (de) | 1989-08-30 |
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EP19860301974 Expired EP0199455B1 (de) | 1985-04-24 | 1986-03-18 | Einführung einer Plasmaprobe in eine Vakuumkammer |
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EP (1) | EP0199455B1 (de) |
JP (1) | JPH0821363B2 (de) |
CA (1) | CA1246246A (de) |
DE (1) | DE3665379D1 (de) |
Families Citing this family (7)
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JPS62219452A (ja) * | 1986-03-20 | 1987-09-26 | Yokogawa Electric Corp | 高周波誘導結合プラズマ・質量分析計 |
GB8813149D0 (en) * | 1988-06-03 | 1988-07-06 | Vg Instr Group | Mass spectrometer |
JP2568253B2 (ja) * | 1988-07-01 | 1996-12-25 | 日本電子株式会社 | 高周波誘導結合プラズマ質量分析装置 |
GB8901975D0 (en) * | 1989-01-30 | 1989-03-22 | Vg Instr Group | Plasma mass spectrometer |
FR2656926B1 (fr) * | 1990-01-05 | 1993-06-11 | Air Liquide | Perfectionnement au procede d'analyse elementaire d'un echantillon par spectrometrie de masse couplee a un plasma induit par haute frequence et a l'installation pour la mise en óoeuvre de ce procede. |
US5229605A (en) * | 1990-01-05 | 1993-07-20 | L'air Liquide, Societe Anonyme Pour L'etude Et L'exploitation Des Procedes Georges Claude | Process for the elementary analysis of a specimen by high frequency inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry and apparatus for carrying out this process |
JP2731512B2 (ja) * | 1994-10-07 | 1998-03-25 | 株式会社日立製作所 | プラズマ質量分析計 |
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CA1189201A (en) * | 1982-12-08 | 1985-06-18 | Donald J. Douglas | Method and apparatus for sampling a plasma into a vacuum chamber |
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- 1985-04-24 CA CA000479934A patent/CA1246246A/en not_active Expired
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- 1986-03-18 DE DE8686301974T patent/DE3665379D1/de not_active Expired
- 1986-03-18 EP EP19860301974 patent/EP0199455B1/de not_active Expired
- 1986-04-24 JP JP61095855A patent/JPH0821363B2/ja not_active Expired - Lifetime
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DE3665379D1 (en) | 1989-10-05 |
EP0199455A3 (en) | 1987-05-13 |
JPS61248348A (ja) | 1986-11-05 |
JPH0821363B2 (ja) | 1996-03-04 |
CA1246246A (en) | 1988-12-06 |
EP0199455A2 (de) | 1986-10-29 |
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