Development of a High-Density Cylindrical Ion Trap Array Mass Spectrometer using Micro-Fabrication Techniques

该奖项是根据2009年美国复苏和再投资法案（公法111-5）资助的。通过化学研究仪器和设备：仪器开发（CRIF:ID）项目的奖励，佛罗里达圣彼得堡斯坦福研究所的Friso van Amerom和Timothy Short以及南佛罗里达大学的同事Shekhar Bhansali、Teresa M. Greely和Jing Wang将使用微制造技术开发高密度圆柱形离子阱阵列质谱仪。与更传统的质谱仪设计相比，该设备将具有更低的系统功率和真空要求。质谱仪将用于分析环境水样。南佛罗里达大学的研究生将参与该仪器的开发，并在夏季海洋学女孩夏令营中与十几岁的女孩一起工作。新型质谱技术开辟了全新的研究途径。利用该奖项开发的仪器将使科学家能够使用现场可部署的仪器在现场研究复杂的化学样品。质谱法在许多具有重大社会影响的领域（包括国土防御和环境监测）取得了越来越多的快速进展。在本奖项中开发的技术将有助于这些领域和其他领域的未来发展。

This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5).With this award from the Chemistry Research Instrumentation and Facilities: Instrument Development (CRIF:ID) program, Friso van Amerom and Timothy Short of Stanford Research Institute, St. Petersburg, FL and colleagues Shekhar Bhansali, Teresa M. Greely and Jing Wang of the University of South Florida will develop high-density cylindrical ion-trap array mass spectrometers using micro-fabrication techniques. The devices will have lower system power and vacuum requirements, compared to more traditional mass spectrometer designs. The mass spectrometers will be used to analyze environmental water samples. Graduate students at University of South Florida will participate in the development of the instrument as well as working with teenage girls in a summer-time Oceanography Camp for Girls.New kinds of mass spectrometry techniques open up brand new avenues of research. The instrument developed with this award will allow scientists to study complex chemical samples, in-situ, with field-deployable instruments. Increasingly, mass spectrometry has enabled rapid advances in a number of areas with significant societal impact -- including homeland defense and environmental monitoring. Technology like that developed in the present award will aid in future advances in these and other areas.