WO2013132308A1 - Procédés et systèmes pour produire un champ quadripôle avec une composante d'ordre supérieur - Google Patents

Procédés et systèmes pour produire un champ quadripôle avec une composante d'ordre supérieur Download PDF

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WO2013132308A1
WO2013132308A1 PCT/IB2013/000343 IB2013000343W WO2013132308A1 WO 2013132308 A1 WO2013132308 A1 WO 2013132308A1 IB 2013000343 W IB2013000343 W IB 2013000343W WO 2013132308 A1 WO2013132308 A1 WO 2013132308A1
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  • the present invention relates to methods and systems for providing an substantially quadrupole field with a higher order component.
  • a method of processing ions in a linear ion trap comprising: a) establishing and maintaining a two-dimensional substantially quadrupole field, the field comprising a quadrupole harmonic of amplitude A2 and an octopole harmonic of amplitude A4, wherein A4 is greater than 0.01 % of A2, A4 is less than 5% of A2, and, for any other higher order harmonic with amplitude An present in the field, n being any integer greater than 2 except 4, A4 is greater than ten times An; and, b) introducing ions to the field.
  • linear ion trap system comprising: (a) a central axis; (b) a first pair of rods, wherein each rod in the first pair of rods is spaced from and extends alongside the central axis; (c) a second pair of rods, wherein each rod in the second pair of rods is spaced from and extends alongside the central axis; (d) four auxiliary electrodes interposed between the first pair of rods and the second pair of rods in an extraction region defined along at least part of a length of the first pair of rods and the second pair of rods, wherein the four auxiliary electrodes comprise a first pair of auxiliary electrodes and a second pair of auxiliary electrodes; and, (e) a voltage supply connected to the first pair of rods, the second pair of rods and the four auxiliary electrodes.
  • the RF voltage supply is operable to provide i) a first RF voltage to the first pair of rods at a first frequency and in a first phase, ii) a dipolar excitation AC to either the first pair of rods or a diagonally oriented pair of auxiliary electrodes at a lower frequency than the first frequency to radially excite the selected portion of the ions having the selected m/z, iii) a second RF voltage to the second pair of rods at a second frequency equal to the first frequency and in a second phase, opposite to the first phase, and iv) an auxiliary RF voltage to the four auxiliary electrodes at an auxiliary frequency equal to the first frequency and in the first phase, wherein the diagonally oriented pair of auxiliary electrodes are closer to the other auxiliary electrodes than to each other.
  • a method of processing ions in a linear ion trap comprising establishing and maintaining a two-dimensional substantially quadrupole field, the field comprising a quadrupole harmonic of amplitude A2 and an octopole harmonic of amplitude A4, wherein A4 is greater than 0.01% of A2, A4 is less than 5% of A2, and, for any other higher order harmonic with amplitude An present in the field, n being any integer greater than 2 except 4, A4 is greater than ten times An; wherein the quadrupole mass filter comprises a first pair rods, a second pair of rods and two auxiliary electrodes interposed between the first pair of rods and the second pair of rods, establishing and maintaining the field comprises providing i) a first RF voltage to the first pair of rods at a first frequency and in a first phase, ii) a second RF voltage to the second pair of rods at a second frequency equal
  • linear ion trap system comprising: (a) a central axis; (b) a first pair of rods, wherein each rod in the first pair of rods can be spaced from and extends alongside the central axis; (c) a second pair of rods, wherein each rod in the second pair of rods is spaced from and extends alongside the central axis; (d) two auxiliary electrodes interposed between the first pair of rods and the second pair of rods in an extraction region defined along at least part of a length of the first pair of rods and the second pair of rods, wherein the two auxiliary electrodes can be diagonally oriented; and, (e) a voltage supply connected to the first pair of rods, the second pair of rods and the two auxiliary electrodes.
  • the RP voltage supply is operable to provide i) a first RP voltage to the first pair of rods at a first frequency and in a first phase, ii) a dipolar excitation AC to either the first pair of rods or the diagonally oriented pair of auxiliary electrodes at a lower frequency than the first frequency to radially excite the selected portion of the ions having the selected m/z, iii) a second RP voltage to the second pair of rods at a second frequency equal to the first frequency and in a second phase, opposite to the first phase, and iv) an auxiliary RP voltage to the auxiliary electrodes at an auxiliary frequency equal to the first frequency and in the first phase, wherein the diagonally oriented pair of auxiliary electrodes can be separated by the central axis of the quadrupole.
  • One electrode in the diagonally oriented pair of auxiliary electrodes can be closer to and substantially between two adjacent rods 26 and 28, while the other auxiliary electrode in the diagonally oriented pair of auxiliary electrodes can be closer to
  • FIG. 1 in a schematic diagram, illustrates a Q-trap, Q-q-Q linear ion trap mass spectrometer system comprising auxiliary electrodes in accordance with an aspect of an embodiment of the present invention.
  • FIG. 2 in a schematic sectional view, illustrates the auxiliary electrodes and rods of a linear ion trap of a variant of the linear ion trap mass spectrometer system of Figure 1.
  • FIGS. 3a and 3b show the overlapped LIT spectra actual intensity (Figure 3a) and relative intensity ( Figures 3b), respectively, when the fill time is varied from 0.2 ms to 4 ms.
  • FIG. 4a and 4b show the overlapped LIT spectra, actual intensity ( Figure 4a) and relative intensity ( Figure 4b) when the fill time is increased from 0.05 ms up to 5 ms.
  • FIGS. 5a and 5b show the overlapped LIT spectra, actual intensity ( Figure 5a) and relative intensity ( Figure 5b) when ion population is increased twentyfold.
  • FIGS 6a and 6b in a schematic sectional view, illustrate the auxiliary electrodes and rods of a linear ion trap in accordance with an aspect of an embodiment of the present invention.
  • FIG. 1 there is illustrated in a schematic diagram, a QTRAP Q-q-Q linear ion trap mass spectrometer system 10 comprising auxiliary electrodes 12 in accordance with an aspect of an embodiment of the invention.
  • the linear ion trap 10 comprises four elongated sets of rods: Q0, a quadrupole mass spectrometer 16, a collision cell 18, and a linear ion trap 20, with orifice plates IQ1 after rod set Q0, IQ2 between quadrupole mass spectrometer 16 and collision cell 18, and IQ3 between collision cell 18 and linear ion trap 20.
  • An additional set of stubby rods 21 is provided between orifice plate IQ 1 and quadrupole mass spectrometer 16.
  • Stubby rods 21 can be provided between orifice plate IQ1 and quadrupole mass spectrometer 16 to focus the flow of ions into the elongated rod set Q 1.
  • Ions can be collisionally cooled in Q0, which may be maintained at a pressure of approximately 8x l 0 '3 torr.
  • Quadrupole mass spectrometer 16 can operate as a conventional transmission RF/DC quadrupole mass spectrometer.
  • ions can collide with a collision gas to be fragmented into products of lesser mass.
  • Linear ion trap 20 can also be operated as a linear ion trap with or without mass selective axial ejection, more or less as described by Londry and Hager in the Journal of the American Association of Mass Spectrometry, 2003, 14, 1 130- 1 147, and in U.S. patent No. 6, 177,688, the contents of which are hereby incorporated by reference.
  • Ions can be trapped in linear ion trap 20 using radial RF voltages applied to the quadrupole rods and axial DC voltages applied to the end aperture lenses.
  • linear ion trap 20 also comprises auxiliary electrodes 12.
  • auxiliary electrodes are arranged in accordance with an aspect of an embodiment of the invention.
  • auxiliary electrodes can be used in contexts different from those shown in FIG. 1 , the set up of FIG. 1 being shown for illustrative purposes only.
  • non-linear ion trap could be used as a precursor ion selector in a tandem MS/MS system, such as a triple quadrupole, QqTOF or trap-TOF, as a product ion analyzer in a MS/MS configuration or as a stand alone mass spectrometer.
  • FIG. 1 shows a possible axial position of the auxiliary electrodes 12 within the linear ion trap 20.
  • the auxiliary electrodes 12 lie within an extraction region of the linear ion trap 20.
  • the extraction region extends over less than half the length of the linear ion trap 20.
  • the radial position of a particular variant of the auxiliary electrodes 12 relative to the linear ion trap 20 is shown.
  • the auxiliary electrodes 12 are T-electrodes comprising a rectangular base section spaced from the central axis of the linear ion trap 20, and a rectangular top section extending toward the central axis of the linear ion trap 20 from the rectangular base section.
  • T-electrodes comprising a rectangular base section spaced from the central axis of the linear ion trap 20, and a rectangular top section extending toward the central axis of the linear ion trap 20 from the rectangular base section.
  • the rectangular top section of the T-electrodes might be retained, but some other means, other than the rectangular base section, could be used to mount this rectangular top section.
  • the T-electrodes in their entirety could be replaced with cylindrical electrodes. In such an embodiment, the cylindrical electrodes would typically have smaller radii than the radii of the main rods 26, 28.
  • a main drive voltage supply 24 can supply a drive RF voltage, VcosQt, as shown.
  • the voltage supply 24 can comprise a first RF voltage source for providing a first RF voltage, VcosQt, to the first pair rods 26 at a first frequency ⁇ , and in the first phase, while the voltage supply 24 can also comprise a second RF voltage source operable to provide a second RF voltage, -VcosQt, to the second pair of rods, again at the first frequency ⁇ , but opposite in phase to the first voltage applied to the first pair of rods 26.
  • the voltage supply 24 also provides a rod offset voltage RO to the rods, which can be equal for both the first pair of rods 26 and the second pair of rods 28.
  • this rod offset voltage RO is a DC voltage opposite in polarity to the ions being confined within the linear ion trap.
  • auxiliary electrodes 12 can be electrically coupled to each other, and also to the main voltage supply 24 via a capacitor C I to step down the magnitude of the RF voltage supplied to the auxiliary electrodes 12 relative to the magnitude V, of the RF voltage supplied to the first pair of rods 26.
  • the rod offset voltage from the main voltage source 24 is not provided to the auxiliary electrodes 12. Instead, a separate or independent power supply 30 is connected to the auxiliary electrodes 12 via resistor R l .
  • the RF supplied to the auxiliary electrodes 12 by the main voltage supply 24 is in phase with the RF voltage provided to the first pair of rods 26, and can be substantially out of phase with the RF voltage provided to the second pair of rods 28.
  • a dipolar excitation AC voltage can be provided by, say, an auxiliary AC voltage source 32, to the first pair of rods to provide a dipolar excitation signal to provide axial ejection, as described, for example in US Patent No. 6, 177,688.
  • the selected ions that are excited by the dipolar excitation signal can be axially ejected past an axial lens 34 to a detector 36 to generate a mass spectrum.
  • these ions can be transmitted to downstream rod sets for further processing.
  • a further downstream rod set might be used to enhance resolution.
  • the ions could be fragmented and analyzed in a downstream mass spectrometer.
  • the AC voltage provided by the auxiliary voltage source 32 can often be at a much lower frequency than the first frequency ⁇ .
  • the auxiliary electrodes 12 need not be coupled to the main voltage supply
  • a separate or auxiliary RF voltage could be incorporated into the mass spectrometer system 10 to provide the auxiliary RF voltage to the four auxiliary electrodes. In such an
  • the auxiliary RF voltage could be phase locked to the first RF voltage source 24a used to supply the first RF voltage to the first pair of rods 26. That is, the RF supplied to the auxiliary electrodes 12 by the above-mentioned auxiliary RF voltage source or power supply can be in phase with the RF voltage provided to the first pair of rods 26, but may also be out of phase with the RF voltage provided to the first pair of rods 26 by as much as plus or minus 1 degree, or even plus or minus 10 degrees.
  • the dipolar excitation voltage can be provided to a diagonally , oriented pair of auxiliary electrodes, which could be either of auxiliary electrodes 12a or 126, instead of the first pair of rods to provide dipolar excitation signal to provide axial ejection, as described, for example in U.S. Pat. No. 7,692, 143.
  • the diagonally oriented pair of auxiliary electrodes may be closer to the other auxiliary electrodes than each other and may be separated by the central axis of the quadrupole.
  • One electrode in the diagonally oriented pair of auxiliary electrodes may be closer to and substantially between two adjacent rods 26 and 28, while the other auxiliary electrode in the diagonally oriented pair of auxiliary electrodes is closer to and
  • a two-dimensional substantially quadrupole field can be provided with a significant octopole component without adding significant magnitudes of other higher order components.
  • a two-dimensional substantially quadrupole field can be provided comprising a quadrupole harmonic of amplitude A2, and an octopole harmonic of amplitude A4, where A4 is greater than 0.01% of A2, and is less than 0.5% of A2.
  • A4 may actually be less than 0.1 % of A2, or even less than 0.05 % of A2. In particular modes of operation, maintaining A4 at 0.035% of A2 has been found to be advantageous.
  • A4 will typically be much greater than An. That is, A4 will typically be greater than 10 times An, and can be greater than 100 times An or even 1000 times An.
  • a method of processing ions in a linear ion trap comprising establishing and maintaining a two-dimensional substantially quadrupole field, the field comprising a quadrupole harmonic of amplitude A2 and an octopole harmonic of amplitude A4, wherein A4 is greater than 0.01 ) of A2, A4 is less than 5% of A2, and, for any other higher order harmonic with amplitude An present in the field, n being any integer greater than 2 except 4, A4 is greater than ten times An; wherein the quadrupole mass filter comprises a first pair rods, a second pair of rods and two auxiliary electrodes interposed between the first pair of rods and the second pair of rods, establishing and maintaining the field comprises providing i) a first RF voltage to the first pair of rods at a first frequency and in a first phase, ii) a second RF voltage to the second pair of rods at a second frequency equal
  • the method further comprises axially transmitting a selected portion of the ions from the field, the selected portion of the ions having a selected m/z; detecting the selected portion of the ions to provide a sliding mass signal peak centred about a sliding m/z ratio and adjusting at least one of the auxiliary RF voltage and the DC voltage provided to the two auxiliary electrodes to slide the sliding m/z ratio toward the selected m/z.
  • the linear ion trap system can further comprise an exit lens, and the two auxiliary electrodes can be interposed between the first pair of rods and the second pair of rods in an extraction region defined along at least part of a length of the four rods, the two auxiliary electrodes being diagonally oriented, the method further comprising axially trapping the selected portion of the ions in the extraction region before axially transmitting the selected portion of the ions.
  • axially trapping the selected portion of the ions in the extraction region before axially transmitting the selected portion of the ions can comprise providing a rod offset voltage to the first pair of rods and the second pair of rods, the rod offset voltage being higher than the DC voltage provided to the two auxiliary electrodes; and, providing a DC trapping voltage applied to the exit lens, wherein the rod offset voltage is lower than the DC trapping voltage applied to the exit lens.
  • the linear ion trap system can further comprise an ejection end of the first pair of rods, the second pair of rods and the two auxiliary electrodes, the method can further comprise changing a contribution to the field provided by the auxiliary RF voltage such that a ratio of A2 to A4 varies along a length of the two auxiliary electrodes.
  • axially transmitting the selected portion of the ions having the selected m/z from the field can comprise providing a dipolar excitation AC voltage to the first pair of rods at a lower frequency than the first frequency to radially excite the selected portion of the ions having the selected m/z.
  • A4 is less than 0.1 % of A2.
  • a linear ion trap system comprising: (a) a central axis; (b) a first pair of rods, wherein each rod in the first pair of rods can be spaced from and can extend alongside the central axis; (c) a second pair of rods, wherein each rod in the second pair of rods can be spaced from and can extend alongside the central axis; (d) two auxiliary electrodes interposed between the First pair of rods and the second pair of rods in an extraction region defined along at least part of a length of the first pair of rods and the second pair of rods, wherein the two auxiliary electrodes can be diagonally oriented; and, (e) a voltage supply connected to the first pair of rods, the second pair of rods and the two auxiliary electrodes.
  • the RF voltage supply can be operable to provide i) a first RF voltage to the first pair of rods at a first frequency and in a first phase, ii) a dipolar excitation AC to either the first pair of rods or the diagonally oriented pair of auxiliary electrodes at a lower frequency than the first frequency to radially excite the selected portion of the ions having the selected m/z, iii) a second RF voltage to the second pair of rods at a second frequency equal to the first frequency and in a second phase, opposite to the first phase, and iv) an auxiliary RF voltage to the auxiliary electrodes at an auxiliary frequency equal to the first frequency and in the first phase, wherein the diagonally oriented pair of auxiliary electrodes can be separated by the central axis of the quadrupole.
  • One electrode in the diagonally oriented pair of auxiliary electrodes can be closer to and substantially between two adjacent rods 26 and 28, while the other auxiliary electrode in the diagonally oriented pair of auxiliary electrodes can be closer
  • the linear ion trap system can further comprise a detector positioned to detect ions axially ejected from the rod set and the auxiliary electrodes.
  • the voltage supply can comprise a first RF voltage source operable to provide the first RF voltage to the first pair of rods and the auxiliary RF voltage to the two auxiliary electrodes; and, a capacitive coupling for connecting the two auxiliary electrodes to the first RF voltage source to reduce a magnitude of the auxiliary RF voltage relative to a magnitude of the first RF voltage.
  • the capacitive coupling can be adjustable to adjustably reduce the magnitude of the auxiliary RF voltage relative to the magnitude of the first RF voltage.
  • the RF voltage source can comprise a first RF voltage source operable to provide the first RF voltage to the first pair of rods; an auxiliary RF voltage source operable to provide the auxiliary RF voltage to the two auxiliary electrodes, the auxiliary RF voltage source can be phase-locked to the first RF voltage source.
  • the linear ion trap system can further comprise a DC voltage source connected to the auxiliary electrodes, the DC voltage source can be adjustable to vary the DC voltage provided to the two auxiliary electrodes.
  • each cross section in the pair of auxiliary cross sections can be substantially T-shaped, comprising a rectangular base section connected to a rectangular top section.
  • the extraction region can comprise an ejection end of the first pair of rods, the second pair of rods and the two auxiliary electrodes, and each rectangular top section in the pair of auxiliary cross sections can taper along the length of the two auxiliary electrodes.
  • the extraction portion of the central axis can comprise less than half the central axis.
  • the extraction region can comprise an ejection end of the first pair of rods and the second pair of rods, and wherein the two auxiliary electrodes can extend axially beyond the ejection end of the first pair of rods and the second pair of rods.
  • an associated plane orthogonal to the central axis can intersect the central axis, can intersect the first pair of rods at an associated first pair of cross sections, and can intersect the second pair of rods at an associated second pair of cross sections;
  • the associated first pair of cross sections can be substantially symmetrically distributed about the central axis and can be bisected by a first axis lying in the associated plane orthogonal to the central axis and passing through a center of each cross section in the first pair of cross sections;
  • the associated second pair of cross sections can be substantially symmetrically distributed about the central axis and can be bisected by a second axis lying in the associated plane orthogonal to the central axis and passing through a center of each cross section in the second pair of cross sections; and, the first axis and the second axis can be substantially orthogonal and can intersect at the central axis; and, wherein, at any point along the central axis in an extraction portion of the central axis
  • a main drive voltage supply 24 can supply a drive RF voltage, VcosQt, as shown.
  • the voltage supply 24 can comprise a first RF voltage source for providing a first RF voltage, VcosQt, to the first pair rods 26 at a first frequency ⁇ , and in the first phase, while the voltage supply 24 can also comprise a second RF voltage source operable to provide a second RF voltage, -VcosQt, to the second pair of rods, again at the first frequency ⁇ , but opposite in phase to the first voltage applied to the first pair of rods 26.
  • the voltage supply 24 also provides a rod offset voltage RO to the rods, which can be equal for both the first pair of rods 26 and the second pair of rods 28.
  • this rod offset voltage RO is a DC voltage opposite in polarity to the ions being confined within the linear ion trap.
  • auxiliary electrodes 12 can be electrically coupled to each other, and also to the main voltage supply 24 via a capacitor C 1 to step down the magnitude of the RF voltage supplied to the auxiliary electrodes 12 relative to the magnitude V, of the RF voltage supplied to the first pair of rods 26.
  • a separate or independent power supply 30 can be connected to the auxiliary electrodes 12 via resistor Rl .
  • the RF supplied to the auxiliary electrodes 12 by the main voltage supply 24 is in phase with the RF voltage provided to the first pair of rods 26, and can be substantially out of phase with the RF voltage provided to the second pair of rods 28.
  • a dipolar excitation AC voltage can be provided by an auxiliary AC voltage source 32, to the first pair of rods to provide a dipolar excitation signal to provide axial ejection, as described, for example in US Patent No. 6, 177,688.
  • the selected ions that are excited by the dipolar excitation signal can be axially ejected past an axial lens 34 to a detector 36 to generate a mass spectrum.
  • these ions can be transmitted to downstream rod sets for further processing. For example, a further downstream rod set might be used to enhance resolution.
  • the ions could be fragmented and analyzed in a downstream mass spectrometer.
  • the AC voltage provided by the auxiliary voltage source 32 can often be at a much lower frequency than the first frequency ⁇ .
  • the auxiliary electrodes 12 need not be coupled to the main voltage supply 24. Instead, in various aspects, as shown in FIG. 6b, a separate or auxiliary RF voltage can be incorporated into the mass spectrometer system 10 to provide the auxiliary RF voltage to the auxiliary electrodes. In various embodiments, the auxiliary RF voltage can be phase locked to the first RF voltage source 24a used to supply the first RF voltage to the first pair of rods 26.
  • the RF supplied to the auxiliary electrodes 12 by the above-mentioned auxiliary RF voltage source or power supply can be in phase with the RF voltage provided to the first pair of rods 26, but can also be out of phase with the RF voltage provided to the first pair of rods 26 by as much as plus or minus 1 degree, or even plus or minus 10 degrees.
  • the dipolar excitation voltage can be provided to the diagonally oriented pair of auxiliary electrodes, instead of the first pair of rods providing dipolar excitation signal to provide axial ejection, as described, for example in U.S. Pat. No. 7,692, 143.
  • the diagonally oriented pair of auxiliary electrodes can be separated by the central axis of the quadrupole.
  • One electrode in the diagonally oriented pair of auxiliary electrodes can be closer to and substantially between two adjacent rods 26 and 28, while the other auxiliary electrode in the diagonally oriented pair of auxiliary electrodes can be closer to and substantially between the other two adjacent rods 26 and 28.
  • a two-dimensional substantially quadrupole field can be provided with a significant octopole component without adding significant magnitudes of other higher order components.
  • a two-dimensional substantially quadrupole field can be provided comprising a quadrupole harmonic of amplitude A2, and an octopole harmonic of amplitude A4, where A4 is greater than 0.01% of A2, and is less than 0.5% of A2.
  • A4 may actually be less than 0.1% of A2, or even less than 0.05 % of A2. In particular modes of operation, maintaining A4 at 0.01 % of A2 has been found to be advantageous.
  • A4 can typically be much greater than An. That is, A4 can typically be greater than 10 times An, and can be greater than 100 times An or even 1000 times An. Symmetry
  • the relative purity of the field that can be generated arises at least partly as a consequence of the symmetry of the linear ion trap 20 in the extraction region comprising auxiliary electrodes 12. That is, as shown in FIG. 2, at any point along the central axis of the extraction region of a linear ion trap 20, shown in FIG. 1, an associated plane orthogonal to the central axis intersects the central axis, intersects the first pair of rods 26 at an associated first pair of cross sections (marked as 26 in FIG. 2) and intersects the second pair of rods 28 at an associated second pair of cross sections (marked as 28 in FIG. 2).
  • This associated first pair of cross section 26 are substantially symmetrically distributed about the central axis and are bisected by a first axis lying in the associated plane orthogonal to the central axis and passing through a center of each cross section 26 in the first pair of cross sections 26.
  • the associated second pair of cross sections 28 are substantially symmetrically distributed about the central axis and are bisected by a second axis lying in the associated plane orthogonal to the central axis and passing through a center of each cross section 28 in the second pair of cross sections 28.
  • the first axis and the second axis are substantially orthogonal and intersect at the central axis.
  • the associated plane orthogonal to the central axis intersects the first pair of auxiliary electrodes 12a at a first pair of auxiliary cross sections (marked 12a in FIG. 2) and intersects the second pair of auxiliary electrodes ⁇ 2b at an associated second pair of auxiliary cross sections (designated ⁇ 2b in FIG. 2).
  • the associated first pair of auxiliary cross sections 12a are substantially symmetrically distributed about the central axis and are bisected by a third axis lying in the associated plane orthogonal to the central axis and passing through a centroid of each auxiliary cross section in the first pair of auxiliary cross sections 12a.
  • the associated second pair of auxiliary cross sections 12b are substantially
  • the third axis and the forth axis are substantially orthogonal, intersect at the central axis, and are offset by a substantially 45 degree angle from the first axis and the second axis.
  • ions can accumulate in the extraction region of the linear ion trap 20 containing the auxiliary electrodes 12.
  • collar electrodes (not shown) at the upstream end of the auxiliary electrodes, toward the middle of the linear ion trap 20, can be provided with a suitable barrier voltage for confining the ions within the extraction region, even if, as will be described below in more detail below, the DC voltage applied to the auxiliary electrodes is raised above the rod offset voltage.
  • the DC field created by the auxiliary electrodes 12 can have a double action.
  • this DC field can create an axial trap to attract, and to some extent, contain ions within the extraction region of the linear ion trap 20.
  • the DC field created by the auxiliary electrodes can introduce radial octopole electrostatic fields that can change the dynamics of the ion cloud, radially.
  • a strength of these fields can be varied by, for example, varying the voltage applied to the electrodes, or changing the depths of the rectangular top sections of the T- electrodes.
  • auxiliary electrodes such as by providing segmented auxiliary electrodes, the segments being configured to provide different voltages at different points along their length, or, say, by having the auxiliary electrodes diverge or converge relative to the central axis of the linear trap 20.
  • the strength of the non-linear RF fields introduced by the auxiliary electrodes 20 can be adjusted by changing the value of coupling capacitor C 1 or changing or tapering the depth of the T-profile of the auxiliary electrodes 12.
  • the capacitive coupling CI is adjustable to adjustably reduce the magnitude of the auxiliary RF voltage relative to the magnitude of the first RF voltage.
  • the capacitive coupling C be adjustable to permit the magnitude of the auxiliary RF voltage applied to the auxiliary electrodes 12 to be adjusted relative to the magnitude, V, of the RF voltages applied to the main rods. Specifically, it can be desirable to increase the proportion of RF provided to the auxiliary electrodes 12 as the scan speed is increased, although, in many embodiments, a higher magnitude of RF applied to the auxiliary electrodes 12 may also work for slower scan speeds.
  • the amplitude of the DC voltage, provided to the auxiliary electrodes 12, can be selected to be in a pre-desired range corresponding to a particular mass range and/or mass ranges of ions to be ejected as well as scan rate of the mass selective axial ejection.
  • the DC voltage applied to the auxiliary T-shaped electrodes 12 can be, at a scan rate of l OOODa/s: - 159V for an ion of mass-to- charge ratio 1 18 Da, - 170V for 322Da, - 190V for 622Da and -210V for 922Da.
  • the DC voltage applied on the T-electrodes could be -162V for the 1 18Da ion, -165V for 322Da, -185V for 622Da and -205V for the 922Da ion.
  • the auxiliary RF voltage provided to the auxiliary electrodes 12 can be adjusted, again depending upon the particular mass range and/or mass ranges of the ions to be ejected.
  • a first group of ions of a first mass-to-charge ratio can be selected for axial ejection.
  • a second group of ions of different mass-to-charge ratio m/z can be selected for axial ejection.
  • At least one of the DC voltage or auxiliary RF voltage provided to the auxiliary electrodes can then be adjusted to slide the measured m/z of that second group of ions toward the actual m/z of that second group of ions. This process can be continued for subsequent groups of ions. That is, different DC or auxiliary RF voltages can be provided to the auxiliary electrodes to obviate space charge density effects involving ions of different m/z.
  • FIGS. 3a and 3b linear ion trap spectra generated using the linear ion trap 20 of FIGS. 1 and 2 are shown.
  • FIG. 3a plots the actual intensity of the ions
  • Figure 3b plots the relative intensity of the ions as the fill time is changed from 0.2ms to 4ms.
  • spectrum 40 was generated using a fill time of 4ms
  • spectrum 42 was generated using a fill time of 2ms
  • spectrum 44 was generated using a fill time of lms
  • spectrum 46 was generated using a fill time of 0.5ms
  • spectrum 48 was generated using a fill time of 0.2ms.
  • FIG. 3b shows how use of the linear ion trap 20 of FIGS. 1 and 2, comprising auxiliary electrodes 12, can significantly reduce peak migration and thereby improve mass accuracy.
  • FIGS. 4a and 46 additional linear ion trap spectra generated using the linear ion trap 20 of FIGS. 1 and 2 are shown.
  • FIG. 4a plots the actual intensity of the ions
  • FIG. 4b plots the relative intensity of the ions as the fill time is moved from 0.05ms to 5ms.
  • spectrum 50 was generated using a fill time of 5ms
  • spectrum 52 was generated using a fill time of 0.5ms
  • spectrum 54 was generated using a fill time of 0.05ms. Due to the low ion intensities involved, spectrum 54 is only apparent in the leftmost peak of Figure 4a.
  • FIGS 3a and 3b From the overlapped spectra 50, 52 and 54, it can be seen that the position of the central peak along the X axis representing m/z is substantially unchanged when ion density or space charge is increased. This is also shown by the relative intensity spectra shown in FIG.
  • FIGS. 4a and 4b also show how use of the linear ion trap 20 of FIGS. 1 and 2 comprising auxiliary electrodes 12, can significantly eliminate peak migration even when fill times are increased 100 fold, and ion density increases proportionally.
  • Quadrupole rod sets configured to provide significant octopole components are previously known. However, the methods used to add these significant octopole components to substantially quadrupole fields in the past can also add significant other higher order components.
  • the linear ion trap 20 shown in FIGS. 1, 2, and 6a and 6b comprising auxiliary electrodes 12 can be used to provide a substantially quadrupole field with a significant octopole component, without adding significant other higher order components. In the description that follows, this characteristic of the field produced, that it is substantially quadrupole with a higher order octopole component and little or no other higher order components is described as the purity of the field.
  • a two dimensionally substantially quadrupole field can be established and maintained in the extraction region of the linear ion trap 20 to process ions.
  • the field comprises a quadrupole harmonic of amplitude A2 and an octopole harmonic of amplitude A4.
  • A4 is greater than 0.01 % of A2, while being less than 0.5 % of A2.
  • A4 may actually be less than 0. 1 % of A2 or even less than 0.05% of A2.
  • A4 may merely be less than 1% or 5% of A2.
  • A4 may merely be less than 0.01 % of A2.
  • A4 will be greater than 10 times An.
  • the octopole component within the field will have an amplitude greater than 10 times the amplitude of the hexapole component, or any harmonic higher order than an octopole.
  • A4 may be greater than 100 times the amplitude of the hexapole harmonic, or any other harmonic of higher order than the octopole, or A4 may be greater than 1000 times An.
  • This relatively pure field comprising, substantially, only a quadrupole component and a higher order octopole component, can be provided and maintained using the linear ion trap 20 comprising auxiliary electrodes 12.
  • a first RF voltage can be provided to the first pair of rods 26 at a first frequency and in a first phase
  • a second RF voltage can be provided to the second pair of rods 28 at a second frequency and in a second phase.
  • the second frequency can be equal to the first frequency
  • the second phase can be opposite to the first phase.
  • an auxiliary RF voltage can be provided to the four auxiliary electrodes 12 at an auxiliary frequency that is equal to the first frequency.
  • the auxiliary RF voltage can also be in the first phase.
  • a DC voltage can also be provided to the four auxiliary electrodes 12. This DC voltage applied to the four auxiliary electrodes 12 can be different than the DC offset voltage RO applied to the rods 26, 28.
  • Ions can be introduced into this field. Then, a selected portion of the ions within this field having a selected m/z can be axially transmitted and detected using the detector 36 downstream of the linear ion trap 20. Detecting the selected portion of the ions having the selected m/z can generate a sliding m/z measurement that does not necessarily correspond to the selected m/z depending on the ion density within the linear ion trap 20. By adjusting the DC voltage provided to the four auxiliary electrodes, this sliding m/z can be changed or moved (hence "sliding") toward the actual selected m/z to take into account or obviate space charge problems.
  • the DC voltage or auxiliary RF voltage provided to the four auxiliary electrodes can be adjusted to slide the sliding m/z ratio measured downward toward the selected m/z.
  • FIGS. 5a and 5b linear ion trap spectra that can be generated using the linear ion trap 20 of FIGS 1 and 2 are shown.
  • FIG. 5a plots actual intensity of the ions
  • FIG. 5b plots the relative intensity of the ions.
  • the dashed line, spectrum 60 was generated for ions of selected mass to charge ratios.
  • the mass spectrum 62 was generated for ions of the same selected mass to charge ratios.
  • the ion population within the linear ion trap 20 was twenty times higher to generate the mass spectrum 60, as compared to the ion population within the linear ion trap 20 used to generate the ion trap spectrum 62. Accordingly, other things equal, one might have, expected the space charge effects to induce some migration of the dashed line spectrum 60 to the right relative to the solid line spectrum 62. This does not appear to be the case in these linear ion trap spectra, however.
  • the linear ion trap 20 can be calibrated by adjusting the amplitude of a DC voltage provided to the auxiliary electrodes 12 of the linear ion trap 20.
  • a selected portion of ions within the linear ion trap of known theoretic m/z can be selected and axially ejected to a detector to generate a mass spectrum.
  • This measured mass spectrum can then be compared with the theoretic mass spectrum and the DC voltage or auxiliary RF voltage provided to the auxiliary electrodes 12 can be, for example, increased to, for example, shift the measured spectrum leftward along the X axis to align it with the theoretic spectrum.
  • the DC voltage provided to the auxiliary electrodes 12 can be kept substantially constant to generate the linear ion trap spectra shown in FIGS. 5a and 5b.
  • ions of widely different m/z could be sequentially axially ejected from linear ion trap 20.
  • calibrant ions including calibrant ions of mass-to-charge ratio reasonably closed to the mass-to-charge ratio for each selected ion to be ejected.
  • specific amplitudes of DC or auxiliary RF voltages suitable for addressing space charge density problems for different ions can be determined, at least approximately.
  • FIG. 5a plots the actual intensities of these ions
  • FIG. 5b plots the relative intensity of the ions.
  • some small peaks are formed to the left of the large or main peak. This is significant as linear ion traps are typically scanned from low mass to charge ratios to higher mass to charge ratios.
  • linear ion traps are typically scanned from low mass to charge ratios to higher mass to charge ratios.
  • the linear ion trap spectrum 60' aligns with the linear ion trap spectrum 62' along all of the peaks, and in particular, along the two small peaks to the left of the large peak.
  • the linear ion trap in different tests, may contain ions of the same m/z at a very low space charge density, as well as ions at a very high m/z space charge density.
  • the detected or sliding m/z ratio actually measured can closely correspond to the actual or theoretic m/z, without further adjustment of the DC voltage provided to the four auxiliary electrodes.
  • the selected portion of the ions before axially transmitting a selected portion of the ions, can be trapped in the extraction region of the linear ion trap 20 comprising the auxiliary electrodes 26, 28.
  • the selected portion of ions could be axially confined by a suitable barrier voltage provided to the exit lens, while at the upstream end of the extraction region, once the selected portion of ions are within the extraction region, they can be contained there and prevented from axially migrating back upstream out of the extraction region within the linear ion trap 20, by providing a suitable barrier voltage to, for example, collar electrodes (not shown) at the upstream end of the extraction region.
  • the RO provided to the first pair of rods 26 and the second pair of rods 28 can be maintained higher than the DC voltage provided to the four auxiliary electrodes, and a DC trapping voltage provided to the exit lens, can also be maintained higher than the rod offset.
  • This selection of voltages can move the selected portion of the ions into the extraction region.
  • the field can be varied along the length of the extraction region by changing a contribution to the field provided by the auxiliary RF voltage applied to the auxiliary electrodes, such that a ratio of A2 to A4 varies along the length of the four auxiliary electrodes 12.
  • This can be done, for example, by 1) providing segmented auxiliary electrodes and applying a slightly different RF voltage to each of the segments of the auxiliary electrodes such that the RF itself varies; 2) by making the auxiliary electrodes T electrodes and then varying the rectangular top sections of these T electrodes; or 3) by having the auxiliary electrodes vary in terms of their distance from the central axis.
  • a dipolar excitation AC voltage can be provided to the first pair of rods 26 by voltage source 32 to provide dipolar excitation to the selected portion of the ions.
  • this dipolar excitation AC voltage will be at much lower frequencies than the other RF voltages provided to the rods in the auxiliary electrodes.
  • This radial excitement of the selected portion of the ions can facilitate axial ejection of the ions, as described, for example, by Hager in US Patent No. 6, 177,688.
  • the auxiliary electrodes may extend axially beyond the ejection end of the first pair of rods 26 and the second pair of rods 28.
  • the auxiliary electrodes 12 may end short of the ejection end of the first pair of rods 26 and the second pair of rods 28.
  • the selected portion of the ions can be axially ejected from the linear ion trap 20 to a downstream rod set, which can be used to transmit the selected portion of the ions further downstream at a higher resolution. All such modifications or variations are believed to be within the sphere and scope of the invention as defined by the claims appended hereto.
  • the auxiliary electrodes can extend axially beyond the ejection end of the first pair of rods 26 and the second pair of rods 28.
  • two auxiliary electrodes 12 can end short of the ejection end of the first pair of rods 26 and the second pair of rods 28.
  • the selected portion of the ions can be axially ejected from the linear ion trap 20 to a downstream rod set, which can be used to transmit the selected portion of the ions further downstream at a higher resolution. All such modifications or variations are believed to be within the sphere and scope of the invention as defined by the claims appended hereto.

Abstract

La présente invention concerne un champ quadripôle sensiblement bidimensionnel. Le champ comprend une harmonique quadripôle d'amplitude A2 et une harmonique octopôle d'amplitude A4, A4 étant supérieur à 0,01 % de A2, A4 est inférieur à 5 % de A2, et, pour toute autre harmonique d'ordre supérieur avec une amplitude An présente dans le champ, n étant un entier supérieur à 2 sauf 4, A4 étant supérieur à dix fois An.
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