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High-stability, high-voltage power supplies for use with multi-reflection time-of-flight mass spectrographs
- Source :
- The Review of scientific instruments. 91(1)
- Publication Year :
- 2020
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Abstract
- Achieving the highest possible mass resolving power in a multi-reflection time-of-flight mass spectrometer requires very high-stability power supplies. To this end, we have developed a programmable high-voltage power supply that can achieve long-term stability on the order of parts-per-million. Herein we present the design of the stable high-voltage system and bench-top stability measurements up to 1~kV; the stabilization technique can, in principle, be applied up to 15~kV or more.. We demonstrate that in the $\le$1~Hz band the output stability is on the level of 1~part per million (ppm) during one hour, with only slightly more output variation across 3 days. We further demonstrate that the output is largely free of noise in the 1~Hz -- 200~Hz band. We also demonstrate settling to the ppm level within one minute following a 100~V step transition. Finally, we demonstrate that when these power supplies are used to bias the electrodes of a multi-reflection time-of-flight mass spectrograph the measured time-of-flight is stable on the ppm-level for at least one hour.<br />Comment: 10 pages, 12 figures, Report of electronics development
- Subjects :
- 010302 applied physics
Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors
Materials science
business.industry
FOS: Physical sciences
High voltage
Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
Mass spectrometry
01 natural sciences
Stability (probability)
010305 fluids & plasmas
Power (physics)
Time of flight
Optics
0103 physical sciences
Electrode
Reflection (physics)
Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
business
Nuclear Experiment
Instrumentation
Noise (radio)
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 10897623
- Volume :
- 91
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- The Review of scientific instruments
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....8a00b781012f0c9820512954d7ad0fa2