5. Types of Mass Analyser
• Quadrupole Mass Analyzer.
• Time of Flight Mass Analyzer.
• Magnetic Sector Mass Analyzer.
Single focusing & Double focusing
• Electrostatic Sector Mass Analyzer.
• Quadrupole Ion Trap Mass Analyzers.
• Ion Cyclotron Resonance.
12. FTMS
FTMS - Fourier transform ion cyclotron
resonance (FTICR) mass spectrometry.
In such instruments, ions are trapped in a strong
magnetic field combined with a weak electric
field.
Excited trapped ions is detected, digitized, and
converted using Fourier transform into the
frequency domain and then mass spectra.
13. Advantage of FTMS
This technique an ultimate champion in mass
resolving power and mass accuracy.
This ability to detect ions with closely located
mass-to-charge ratios (m/z), e.g., isotopic peaks
of high-mass ions.
Allowed researchers to measure their masses m
with relative accuracies at the level of
<10−7−10−6.
15. Overview
• Newest addition to the family of
high-resolution mass spectrometry
analyzers.
• It combines high speed with
excellent quantification properties.
• Ranking favorably in many analytical
applications.
16. Why need for more analyser?
combination of the mass
analyzer with the detector
that ultimately determines
the quality and reliability of
analysis.
17. Thirst for orbitrap
• Numerous attempts were made over decades
to develop FTMS on the basis of
radiofrequency ion traps, electrostatic traps,
and multireflection systems.
• Such conditions created fertile soil for the
appearance and growth of a new member of
the FTMS family: the Orbitrap analyzer.
18. Stages of orbitrap analyser
• Appearing first as a cute scientific curiosity in
patent literature .
• Presented first at a conference of the
American Society for Mass Spectrometry in
1999.
• In 2005 as an accurate and compact mass
detector.
19. • The first commercial implementation was in a
hybrid instrument (LTQ Orbitrap) featuring a
linear ion trap front-end.
• Since then thousands of Orbitrap-based
instruments were produced and became a
common sight in analytical laboratories and
facilities worldwide.
20. The commercial orbitrap mass spectrometer has
the following performance characteristics:
• Mass resolution up to 150,000
• Mass accuracy of 2–5 ppm
• An ion abundance range of 1:5,000
over which accurate mass
measurements can be made .
21. • As good as 0.2 ppm mass accuracy for
peaks with signal‐to‐noise (S/N) ratio
>10,000,
• Published upper mass‐to‐charge (m/z)
limit of at least 6,000.
• Larger trapping capacity compared to
FT‐ICR and the 3‐D Paul trap
23. Traping
• Ions are trapped because their electrostatic
attraction to the inner electrode is balanced
by their inertia.
• Thus, ions cycle around the inner electrode on
elliptical trajectories [route].
• In addition, the ions also move back and forth
along the axis of the central electrode.
• Their route in space resemble helices.
24. Injection
Proof-of-principle of the technology was
carried out using the direct injection of
ions from an external laser desorption and
ionization ion source.
This method of injection works well with
pulsed sources such as MALDI but cannot
be interfaced to continuous ion sources
like electrospray.
25. Injection
In order to inject ions from an external ion source,
the field between the electrodes is first reduced.
As ion packets are injected tangentially into the
field, the electric field is increased by ramping the
voltage on the inner electrode.
Ions get squeezed towards the inner electrode until
they reach the desired orbit inside the trap.
At that moment ramping is stopped, the field
becomes static, and detection can start.
27. Detection
Axial oscillations of ion rings are detected by their image
current induced on the outer electrode which is split into
two symmetrical pick-up sensors connected to a
differential amplifier.
Like in FTICR-MS, all the ions are detected simultaneously
over some given period of time and resolution can be
improved by increasing the strength of the field or by
increasing the detection period.
The Orbitrap differs from FTICR-MS by the absence of a
magnetic field and hence has a significantly slower
decrease of resolving power with increasing m/z.
28. The Orbitrap mass analyzer consists
essentially of three electrodes as shown in
Figure .
29.
30. Ions are stored and cooled
in a curved RF- only
quadrupole (C- trap)
RF is ramped down, radial
DC is applied
Ions are ejected along
lines converging on the
orbitrap entrance).
As ions enter orbitrap,
they are picked up and
squeezed by its electric
field
All ions start simul-
taneously, but light ions
enter Orbitrap analyzer
earlier that heavy ions
C-TRAP
lenses
Deflector
34. C-TRAP
• All commercial Orbitrap mass spectrometers
utilize a curved linear trap for ion injection (C-
trap).
• By rapidly ramping down trapping RF voltages
and applying DC gradients across the C-trap.
• ions can be bunched into short packets similar to
those from the laser ion source.
• The C-trap is tightly integrated with the analyzer,
injection optics and differential pumping.