| IONWERKS, INC. Patent applications |
| Patent application number | Title | Published |
| 20120018630 | Nonoparticulate Assisted Nanoscale Molecular Imaging by Mass Spectrometery - Methods and devices for mass spectrometry are described, specifically the use of nanoparticulate implantation as a matrix for secondary ion and more generally secondary particles. A photon beam source or a nanoparticulate beam source can be used a desorption source or a primary ion/primary particle source. | 01-26-2012 |
| 20110147578 | TIME-OF-FLIGHT SPECTROMETRY AND SPECTROSCOPY OF SURFACES - Described is an analytical method and apparatus for counting and measuring the flight time of secondary electrons, secondary ions and neutrals, scattered ions and/or neutrals and for correlating coincidences between these while maintaining a continuous un-pulsed, micro-focused, primary particle beam for impinging a surface for purposes of microprobe imaging and microanalysis. | 06-23-2011 |
| 20110049355 | FAST TIME-OF-FLIGHT MASS SPECTROMETER WITH IMPROVED DATA ACQUISITION SYSTEM - Time-of-flight mass spectrometer instruments are disclosed for monitoring fast processes with large dynamic range using a multi-threshold TDC data acquisition method or a threshold ADC data acquisition method. Embodiments using a combination of both methods are also disclosed. | 03-03-2011 |
| 20100090101 | GOLD IMPLANTATION/DEPOSITION OF BIOLOGICAL SAMPLES FOR LASER DESORPTION TWO AND THREE DIMENSIONAL DEPTH PROFILING OF BIOLOGICAL TISSUES - The present invention enhances the laser desorption of biological molecular ions from surfaces by creating a surface localized MALDI particle matrix by ion implantation of low energy ionized clusters (gold, aluminum, etc.) or chemically derivatized clusters into the near surface region of the sample. MALDI analysis of the intact biomolecules on the surface or within a narrow subsurface region defined by the implantation range of the ions can then be performed by laser desorption into a mass spectrometer or, in a preferred embodiment, into a combined ion mobility orthogonal time of flight mass spectrometer. | 04-15-2010 |
| 20090189072 | TIME-OF-FLIGHT MASS SPECTROMETRY OF SURFACES - The present invent provides a particle detector for counting and measuring the flight time of secondary electrons and scattered ions and neutrals and to correlate coincidences between these and backscattered ions/and neutrals while maintaining a continuous unpulsed microfocused primary ion beam for impinging a surface. Intensities of the primary particle scattering and secondary particle emissions are correlated with the position of impact of the focused beam onto a materials surface so that a spatially resolved surface elemental and electronic structural mapping is obtained by scanning the focused beam across the surface. | 07-30-2009 |
| 20090008545 | FAST TIME-OF-FLIGHT MASS SPECTROMETER WITH IMPROVED DYNAMIC RANGE - Time-of-flight mass spectrometer instruments are disclosed for monitoring fast processes with large dynamic range using a multi-threshold TDC data acquisition method or a threshold ADC data acquisition method. Embodiments using a combination of both methods are also disclosed. | 01-08-2009 |