Analyzing properties of electrostatic ion accelerator

We reviewed the focusing properties of simple time-of-flight mass spectrometer, which ion-optical path does not contain the ions reflector. High values of resolution and sensitivity are achieved due to the fact that the electrostatic ions package accelerator is designed as a system of external to the ion flow electrodes forming an inhomogeneous electrostatic field, which along with the acceleration, performs concurrent high-performance time-of-flight and spatial focusing of ion packages directly to the input plane of the ions detector.