Patent ID: 11942317
Assignee: THE TRUSTEES OF INDIANA UNIVERSITY
Field: Electrical machinery, apparatus, energy (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 17:
18. A method for analyzing charged particles, comprising:
in or into an ion source region, generating charged particles from a sample of particles,
causing the charged particles to enter a mass spectrometer from the ion source region at each of a plurality of differing temperatures within a range of temperatures over which the sample particles undergo structural changes,
controlling the mass spectrometer to measure at least the charge magnitudes of the generated charged particles at each of the plurality of differing temperatures,
determining, with a processor, an average charge magnitude of the generated charged particles at each of the plurality of differing temperatures based on the measured charge magnitudes, and
determining, with the processor, an average charge magnitude profile over the range of temperatures based on the determined average charge magnitudes.