Table 1.
Parameters utilized for PIC simulations and prior experimental data.
| Simulation | |
| Trapping Potential | 1.0 V |
| Magnetic Field | 7.0 T |
| Analyzer geometry | Cubic |
| Ion Cloud | Ellipsoid |
| Semi-major axis | 0.2 cm |
| Semi-minor axis | 0.05 cm |
| Trap Dimension | 5.08 cm |
| PIC Grid | 32×32×32 |
| Simulated Particles | 100 – 1,000,000 |
| Ion m/z | 132.9054, 150.0 |
| Excitation | |
| Voltage | 2–180 (Vp-p) |
| Excitation Steps | 16383 |
| Duration | 90 µs |
| Time Step | 0.005 µs / step |
| Detection | |
| Detection Steps | 2097152 |
| Duration | 52 ms |
| Time step | 0.024 µs /step |
| Experimental | |
| Trapping Potential | 1.0 V |
| Magnetic Field | 7.0 T |
| Analyzer geometry | Closed-end Cylindrical |
| Detection | |
| Excitation Voltage | 100 Vp-p |
| Duration | 47.5 msec |