Abstract
Wire meshes commonly used as transmission grids in ion optical configurations has certain unavoidable disadvantages. Apart from the loss in transmission, there are small angle deflections while the ions are passing close to the wires. This is important for high resolution time-of-flight mass spectrometry as this effect impairs both the dynamic range and the resolution. The amount of deflection from various commercially available grids are determined from simulation calculations on representative wire grids. Gridless designs of ion optics are becoming more popular in recent times for sophisticated and sensitive measurements. Here we report such a device for time of flight mass spectrometer that also assists in perpendicular ionization. This ion optics together with a gridless ion reflector gives a high time resolution of more than 40000.
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