Micro-Channel Plate Mount Assembly for Ion Detector in Mass Spectrometry

Abstract: a mount assembly for holding a microchannel plate in an ion detector includes an input side clamping plate including a plurality of input side pads; and an output side clamping plate including a plurality of output side pads, wherein, when assembled, the input side clamping plate and the output side clamping plate are configured to allow positioning between the input side clamping plate and the output side clamping plate the microchannel plate having a plurality of microchannels each having an input side opening and an opposed output side opening; hold the microchannel plate; and position the subset of the input side pads and the subset of the output side pads in a staggered configuration such that when a microchannel of a plurality of microchannels is obstructed in a first opening, a second opening of the microchannel opposing the first opening is unobstructed.

Inventor(s): Nikola BERIC, Graham A. LEITH, Robert NIECKARZ

CPC Classification: H01J49/025 (ELECTRIC DISCHARGE TUBES OR DISCHARGE LAMPS (spark-gaps ; arc lamps with consumable electrodes ; particle accelerators ))

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