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Quads

• HAPSITE the field-portable GC/MS from (Inficon, Inc.), which can also be used as a Chemical Warfare Detection Systems
  • California EPA's Department of Toxic Substances Control (DTSC) has certified the analytical capabilities of the HAPSITE portable gas chromatograph-mass spectrometer report: cal_epa_hapsite.pdf mirror (75 p, 0.8MB/pdf)
  • ETV report: hapsite.pdf mirror (79 p, 0.5MB/pdf)
  • Field-Portable Analytical Inc.
  • Apllication notes from inficon (there are many more, please visit http://www.inficon.com/: mirror (*.pdf) examples: chemical spill (21kb) stack emissions (60kb), on-site decontamination (28kb)

• CT-1128 Portable GC-MS from Constellation Technology
• Product brochure ct1128.pdf mirror (3 p, 3.8 MB)
• The TSWG GC-QMS is a cost-effective and efficient means for analyzing on-site unknown chemicals

• Bruker Daltonics. launched a new website with "generally improved usability and content" and all deep links are gone: Just look for NBC detection. They do not offer any lierature on mobile MS in there Library section.
  • The MM2 seems to be the smaller successor of the MM1 which was the very first mobile GC/MS.
  • MM1 description from an Information Paper of the Department of Defense (Gulf War Illnesses)
  • Not so much about the MM1 itself but good reading for everybody who is doing field work Kuwaiti Girls’ School report of an event that took place during the Gulf War of 1990 and 1991. Very comprehensive report with lots of details.
  • If you like to see an MM1 in action start looking for a Fox NBCRS
  • The EM 640 is an elegant and rugged mobile GC/MS designed for chemical task forces.
    • ETV report: em640.pdf mirror (1.8MB/pdf)
    • Fast GC/MS Analysis of Hazardous Organics (EMT, TUHH)
    • Submersible MI/GC/MS. (EMT, TUHH) Download: handout from PittCon2000 (217KB *.pdf)
  • The Viking 573 (until 1999 known as SpectraTrak, Viking Instruments) is a portable sytem based on an Agilent quadrupole system.
    • ETV report: viking.pdf mirror (1.3MB/pdf).

• Ionchip is a chip-based mass spectrometer developed by Microsaic Systems
• "Monolithic MEMS Quadrupole Mass Spectrometers by Deep Silicon Etching" Martin Geear, Richard R. A. Syms, Steven Wright, and Andrew S. Holmes, Journal of Microelctromechanical Systems, VOL. 14, NO. 5, October 2005. - abstract (full text for IEEE members)
• Precursor
  • "Silicon based quadrupole mass spectrometry using microelectromechanical systems", Taylor S., Tindall D., Syms R., J. Vac. Sci. Technol. B, 19 (2001) 557-562
  • Mass medium Research Intelligence 11 December 2001. 2 page article as pdf

• ecoSys-P man portable mass spectrometer by European Spectrometry Systems (ESS)
  • more information (applications) from ESS
  • Gas-Analyser web site by ESS

• Miniature Mass Spectrometer Promotes Spaceflight Safety (TAP program at JPL)
  • Sniffing for Leaks of Life from SpaceDaily
  • 7 page report mirror (0.4 MB/ pdf)

Ion Trap

• Griffin Analytical Technologies Inc.
• Griffin Analytical Technologies to Double in Size 12/2004.
• Cylindrical Ion Traps and MiniCIT by Graham Cooks
• "Star Wars" cover
• Breath analzyer based on a miniature cylindrical ion trap.
• Ethan R. Badman and R. Graham Cooks; Miniature mass analyzers, J. Mass Spectrom., 35 (2000) 659-671
• MKS PICO Helium Leak Detector
• Micro Ion Trap Mass Spectrometer from the Chemical and Analytical Sciences Division (C&ASD) at Oak Ridge National Laboratory
• The CBMS (Chemical Biological Mass Spectrometer) is a Membrane Inlet Ion-Trap from Bruker
  • Bruker brochure (*.pdf 2MB)
  • ORNL technology

Time-of-Flight

• Ortho TOF a compact and rugged TOF (Ionwerks, Inc.)
• miniTOF linear TOF Mass Spectrometer (Comstock)
• MS-200 former T-CAT a transportable TOF Mass Spectrometer.(Kore)
  • working priciple of the instrument
  • fire scene investigation using the MS-200
• Laser Mass Spectrometer for the European Space Agency
• Highly miniaturised mass spectrometers to be deployed on an airless planetary surface (pdf)
• tiny TOF from the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL)
  • hand out mirror (320KB/PDF)
  • Miniature time-of-flight mass spectrometer using a flexible circuitboard reflector Rapid Commun. Mass Spectrom. 14, 2408–2411 (2000)
  • Improved Teeny-TOF Mass Spectrometer at the 3rd Harsh-Environment Mass Spectrometry Worksho
  • Method of making an ion reflectron comprising a flexible circuit board United States Patent 6,607,414
• Miniature Mass Spectrometer from the University Research Alliance (URA), formerly the Amarillo National Research Center.(ANRC)
  • "Rugged Miniaturized Mass Sensors for Use in Plutonium Processing", ANRCP-1999-20 download paper (*.pdf 125 KB)
• SPI-TOFMS Single-Photon Ionisation Time-of-Flight Mass Spectrometer. (I am not allowed to mirror the article) Analytical Chemistry, 2001. 73(15): 3590-3604
• Fabrication of a Novel a Micro Time-of-flight mass spectrometer

Combined techniques

• FieldMate a field portable Quadrupole Ion Trap, Time-Of-Flight mass analyzer from Syagen
  • Finding the needle in a haystack

Magnetic sector MS

• The O.I. Corporation purchased the assets of Intelligent Ion on December 23, 2004
• Sinha's small Mattauch-Herzog MS
  • Monolithic Electrostatic Sector for Miniature Mass Spectrometers (Jet Propulsion Laboratory - JPL)
  • Temperature-Stable Magnetic Sector for Mass Spectrometer (JPL)
  • Portable GC/MS by the National Center for Environmental Research and Quality Assurance (NCERQA)
• A portable GC-Mattauch-Herzog-MS
• Field gas chromatography mass spectrometry for fast analysis" Alexei L. Makas, Mikhail L. Troshkov, Journal of Chromatography B, 800 (2004) 55-61 (Article mirrored with kind permission of the author)
• Portable Magnet-MS for Fast Simultaneous Spectra Acquisition (EMT, TUHH)
• Ceramitron is licensing the technology of former Mass Sensors, Inc. CyberSpec was the smallest magnetic sector mass spectrometer engine I've ever seen.
• Microscale mass spectrometric chemical-gas sensor United States Patent 6,590,207
• Double-focusing mass spectrometer apparatus and methods regarding same United States Patent 6,501,074

Cycloidal MS (Nitpicker call it prolate trochoidal. To avoid further arguments I would name it Roulette MS - mass 28, even, black)

• Monitorinstruments offers a Miniature Mass Analyzer (MMA) based on a 180° Cycloid. Don't miss their technology section
• Harold F. Hemond Unfortunatley the information about the Ghost Buster, a backpack MS, has been deleted :-(
  • Ecosystem, Oceanic and Urban Emission Measurements

Monopole

• MIGMAS Microgravity Mass Spectrometer
• MIGMAS Microgravity Mass Spectrometer
• High Resolution Ionospheric Mass Spectrometer
• "Miniaturized mass-selective detector with atmospheric pressure chemical ionization", A.L. Makas, M.L. Troshkov, A.S. Kudryavtsev, V.M. Lunin, Journal of Chromatography B, 800 (2004) 63-67, (Article mirrored with kind permission of the author)
• Three-dimensional monopole - a new ion trap mass analyser with one-dimensional ion sorting Gurov VS, Dubkov MV, Korneeva OV. ,Rapid Commun Mass Spectrom. 2000;14(6):454-8.

Constant Velocity MS

• IsoTak a new approach. I haven't seen any spectra yet but the system looks intriguingly simple
• Rescuing a brilliant idea - the venture perspective

Ion Mobility Spectrometer since it's not a real MS only a few

• FAIMS Field Asymmetric waveform Ion Mobility Spectrometry from Ionalytics
  • FAQ to FAIMS
• Ion Mobility Spectrometry at the Institute of Spectrochemistry and Applied Spectroscopy (ISAS)
• ChemPro100 a small(!) IMS from Environics Oy
• Micro Ion Mobility Spectrometry (Jun Xu, W.B. Whitten, J. M. Ramsey, LSM/ ORNL)
• Raid from Bruker Daltonics)
• Portable GC/Ion Mobility Spectrometer (FemtoScan)
• GSM GC-IMS. Please don't make a ridiculous proposition

Projects

• Underwater Mass Spectrometry at the University of South Florida.
• More Applications are described by the Institute of Ocean Sciences, University of Victoria
• Applied Microsystems sells the In-spectr, the only commercially available underwater mass spectrometer
• MAGMASS (marine mass-spectral gas analyzer) at Mendeleyev All-Russia Research Institute for Metrology. All links have vanished.

• Micro-MS fabricated in MEMS technology (Semiconductor Technology, TUHH)
  • E. Wapelhorst, J.-P. Hauschild, J. Müller: A Fully Integrated Micro Mass Spectrometer, 5th Workshop on Harsh Environment Mass Spectrometry (2005)
  • Surface microstructure/miniature mass spectrometer, P. Siebert, G. Petzold, Á. Hellenbart, J. Müller, Applied Physics A Materials Science & Processing, 67 (1998) pp 155"-1"60 , Mit freundlicher Genehmigung des Springer-Verlag Heidelberg How to get access to fulltext articles
• Microengineered MS for in-situ Measurement of Airborne Contaminants (NCERQA) Abstract (new link?)

• INMS a quadrupole MS as payload of Cassini
• INMS Ion and Neutral Mass Spectrometer Instrument, Cassini Orbiter Titan's atmosphere, Quadrupol MS.
• INMS paper at KU Physics Department
• ESA - Cassini-Huygens
  • Huygens GC/MS project description at ESA. Here you can find pictures of the black box and more: ACP
• Electrostatic Analyzer with 3 magnetic MS Galileo Plasma Subsystem Instrumentation. University of Iowa, Department of Physics and Astronomy

• Roving GC/MS Project at the University of Utah.
• Field-portable GC/MS, Forensic Science in the Field (Nonproliferation, Arms Control, and International Security, LLNL)
• Mobile GC/MS at the Environmental Measurement Technology (EMT) which is part of the Department of Measurement Engineering (TUHH)
  • Analytical Task Force Organisation of an ATF, Ruggedized GC/MS, Strategies, on-site disaster management

Parts

• BURLE has microchannel plates (MCP) and channeltrons.
• Detector Technology, Inc. channel electron multipliers
• LIGA fabricated quadrupole for mass spectrometers (by the Sandia National Laboratories for the Jet Propulsion Laboratory)
• Micromachined Ultra-Miniature Ion Source and Mass Spectrometer (50 Word abstract)
• Efficient Ionizer for an Array for an array of Mass Spectrometers (JPL)
• miniaturized Faraday cup array using micromachining techniques Bruce Darling
• Power Supply for Miniature Quadrupole Mass Spectrometer
• Miniature Turbomolecular and Turbo/Drag Pump Creare Inc.

Related

• For more information on miniature mass specs dig into the Workshop on Harsh-Environment Mass Spectrometry. This site includes abstracts and slides of talks.
• NSF workshop "Prospects for Miniaturization of Mass Spectrometry" containing slides of some interesting talks (11/2003)
• US patents on miniature MS will take a couple of minutes
• Mobile mass spectrometer for monitoring and forecasting emergencies from ROSOBORONEXPORT Federal State Unitary Enterprise is the major specialised agency responsible for Russian arms export.

• Residual Gas Analyzer are small enough to be used in portable mass spectrometers
• micro and portable GC are making a lot of sense

• Try Google Scholar to find articles on mobile, miniature or portable mass spectrometers
• "Miniature Mass Analyzers" Ethan R. Badman and R. Graham Cooks J. Mass Spectrom. 35 (2000) 659-671 .
• "The Incredible Shrinking Mass Spectrometers", Celia M. Henry, Analytical Chemistry News & Features, April 1, (1999) 264A-268A, Copyright 1999 ACS
• "Itsy-bitsy Mass Spectrometers" Celia M. Henry, Chemical & Engineering News 80 (2002)34-35
• "Chip-MS: Coupling the large with the small" Andrew J. de Mello, Lab on a Chip 1 (2001) 7N–12N, © The RSC 2001
• Mobile Mass Spectrometer Gwyn Winfield, Military Medical Technology, October 2004
• Boost for life on Mars hunt. BBC news 24 May, 2002
• Review of Chemical Sensors for In-Situ Monitoring of Volatile Contaminants Clifford K. Ho, Michael T. Itamura, Michael Kelley, and Robert C. Hughes,Sandia report,SAND2001-0643, Unlimited Release, Printed March 2001
• Investigation of Miniature Mass Spectrometers for Hydrogen Isotopic Analyses by the Savannah River Technology Center (Comparison of a Ferran Multipole MS, a Mass Sensors magnetic MS and a miniature ion trap based on ORNL design with a:SRS RGA 300).

• In Situ Isotope Services, Inc. has a mobile System for In Situ Acquisition of Isotope Data on Natural Gas (mobile GC-C-IRMS)
• Mass Spec Analytical Ltd, Analytical forensic chemsits (mass spectrometry to the detection of drugs on boarding cards)
  • The Scentinel is based on a Sciex API 2000
  • To get an appreciation for this company just take a look at there Papers

• The Electronic Nose and The Quadrupole Mass Spectrometer Array by D. Karmon (JPL)
• Robbat Research Group field analytics, Cone Penetrometry GC/MS, Time Compressed GC/MS (abstract *.pdf)
• Enhancing the Sensitivity of Miniaturized Quadrupole Mass Spectrometers. IECON 2001: IEEE Industrial Electronics Society, Denver, Colorado, USA,Nov 29 to Dec 2, 2001