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Rev Sci Instrum. 2010 Jul;81(7):076102. doi: 10.1063/1.3460265.

Note: New design of a cryogenic linear radio frequency multipole trap.

The Review of scientific instruments

Oskar Asvany, Frank Bielau, Damian Moratschke, Jürgen Krause, Stephan Schlemmer

Affiliations

  1. I. Physikalisches Institut, Universität zu Köln, Zülpicher Str. 77, 50937 Köln, Germany. [email protected]

PMID: 20687768 DOI: 10.1063/1.3460265

Abstract

A new design of a cryogenic linear 22-pole ion trap has been constructed and tested. It is essentially a copper housing to which opposite inner walls two electrode sets are attached via sapphire insulators. These stainless steel electrodes are electroformed in one piece to guarantee good heat conduction. Connected to an external coil, they form an LC-circuit of about 19 MHz resonance frequency. This circuit is excited with a rf power supply made of a commercial digital synthesizer followed by a 10 W amplifier. Buffer gas-cooled H(2)D(+) ions have been stored in this trap at a nominal trap temperature of 14 K. Spectroscopy of the ions confirmed that the kinetic (Doppler) temperature is in reasonable agreement with this value.

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