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REVIEW OF SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMENTS
Volume 91, Issue 1, Pages -Publisher
AMER INST PHYSICS
DOI: 10.1063/1.5104292
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- Japan Society for the Promotion of Science KAKENHI [2200823, 24224008, 24740142, 15K05116]
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Achieving the highest possible mass resolving power in a multireflection 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 in the order of parts-per-million. Herein, we present the design of a stable high-voltage system and bench-top stability measurements up to 1 kV; a stabilization technique can, in principle, be applied up to 15 kV or more. We demonstrate that in the <= 1 Hz band, the output stability is at the level of 1 part per million (ppm) for 1 h, 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 1 min following a 100 V step transition. Finally, we demonstrate that when these power supplies are used to bias the electrodes of a multireflection time-of-flight mass spectrograph, the measured time-of-flight is stable at the ppm-level for at least 1 h. Published under license by AIP Publishing.
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