Influence of the Number of Electrodes Used as a Detector on the Detected Signal in a Segmented Second Order Cassinian Ion Trap
摘要
Ion traps are important mass analyzers used e.g. to identify unknown substances in environmental sciences. Cassinian Ion Traps are a novel variant where the electrodes are shaped in the form of Cassinian ovals. To simplify the construction of theses electrodes, they can be realized in a segmented way so that instead of being a bulk object, the electrodes can be composed of electrode slices. This offers to use only some and not all of them as a detector. Here, we show how the choice of the number of segments influences the detected signal and thus the mass spectrum.