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Zeptona: Ultra-low noise amplifier technology
You may already know about ATONA® technology. Zeptona takes it one step further. Resistor-based Faraday detectors have a limited overlap of dynamic range with ion counting detectors, and even other Faradays when using different feedback resistors. If the beam intensity is too low then the Faraday noise reduces your precision. It it’s too high then…
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ATONA: world class amplifier technology
What if you had Faraday amplifiers that gave you the low noise level of 1e13 Ω amplifiers, yet you could also put huge ion beams on them – without consequence? What if these amplifiers had almost zero resistor lag or Tau decay time? What if these amplifiers were so stable that gain calibrations could almost…
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Optimising ATONA integration times for beam intensity
Application note AN22_01 Matt Hockley, Isotopx Ltd, Dalton House, Dalton Way, Middlewich, Cheshire, CW10 0HU, UK. How do I select an integration time to optimise my measurement precision? Introduction When measuring an ion beam, there are two sources of uncertainty on the measurement: uncertainty due to amplifier noise, and uncertainty due to the shot noise…
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Measurement of clumped CO2 isotopologues using
SIRIX stable isotope ratio mass spectrometerApplication note AN22_02 Isotopx Ltd, Dalton House, Dalton Way, Middlewich, Cheshire, CW10 0HU, UK. How can SIRIX be used to improve CO2 measurement? Introduction The objective of CO2 isotopologue studies is to accurately and precisely measure small differences (Δ 47) in the abundance of m/z 47 (13C18O16O) relative to m/z 44 12C16O16O. Small changes in…
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Introducing ATONA for TIMS – A paradigm shift in signal amplifier technology
Technical Note T30182 Isotopx Ltd, Dalton House, Dalton Way, Middlewich, Cheshire, CW10 0HU, UK. Introduction Over the past 20 years improvements in resistor amplification technology have slowed. The marginal gains that have been made are largely offset by the practical limitations. The newly developed ATONA (aA to nA) amplification technology from Isotopx has eliminated the…
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Ultra Low Noise and Baseline Drift Zeptona Faraday Detector
Technical Note 2102 Matt Hockley, Zenon Palacz, Shaun Yardley and Tony Jones, Isotopx Ltd, Middlewich, Cheshire, UK. Introduction The recently developed Isotopx ATONA® Faraday amplifier represents the benchmark in ion beam signal measurement using Faraday collectors1. A further advance; the Zeptona detector system is presented in this technical note. The Zeptona system comprises a custom…
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Isotopic analysis of sub-nanogram Nd standards using new ATONA amplifiers
Andrew A. Reinhard 1, Jeremy D. Inglis1, Robert E. Steiner1, Stephen LaMont1, Matthew G. Jackson2 1Nuclear and Radiochemistry, Los Alamos National Laboratory 2Department of Earth Science, University of California Santa Barbara Motivation In the last several years new amplifier technologies have been released for thermal ionization mass spectrometers (TIMS) including the ATONA amplifiers produced by…