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Published on: February 4, 2018
Experimental and simulational study of the operation conditions for a high transmission mass filter
A I Ayesh1, A Lassesson, S A Brown
1The MacDiarmid Institute of Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology, University of Canterbury, Christchurch 8020, New Zealand.
Abstract:
The operation conditions of a double pulsed field mass filter were studied using both experiment and simulation. The mass filter consists of two pairs of parallel plates and operates on the time-of-flight principle. The study showed that the ions' beam deflection angle is a critical factor in optimizing the mass filter transmission efficiency. This angle is dependent on the accelerating voltage, ion mass, and horizontal velocity of the ions. The optimum operating conditions for the mass filter were found and used to study the mass distribution of palladium ions produced by a magnetron sputtering source. The study shows that this mass filter is suitable for technological applications because of its high transmission and wide mass range.
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