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Dustin D Holden1, Alexander Makarov2, Jae C Schwartz3
1Department of Chemistry, The University of Texas at Austin, 105 E. 24th St, Austin, TX, 78712, USA.
Abstract:
The first application of light-emitting diodes (LEDs) for ultraviolet photodissociation (UVPD) mass spectrometry is reported. LEDs provide a compact, low cost light source and have been incorporated directly into the trapping cell of an Orbitrap mass spectrometer. MS/MS efficiencies of over 50 % were obtained using an extended irradiation period, and UVPD was optimized by modulating the ion trapping parameters to maximize the overlap between the ion cloud and the irradiation volume.
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