{"id":298,"date":"2016-07-27T15:23:08","date_gmt":"2016-07-27T15:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.clowersresearch.com\/main\/?p=298"},"modified":"2016-08-25T22:29:12","modified_gmt":"2016-08-25T22:29:12","slug":"open-source-modular-approaches-to-ion-mobility-spectrometry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.clowersresearch.com\/main\/open-source-modular-approaches-to-ion-mobility-spectrometry\/","title":{"rendered":"Open-Source, Modular Approaches to Ion Mobility Spectrometry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.clowersresearch.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Pulse_Comp_v3.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-297\" src=\"http:\/\/www.clowersresearch.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Pulse_Comp_v3-300x223.png\" alt=\"Pulse_Comp_v3\" width=\"300\" height=\"223\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.clowersresearch.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Pulse_Comp_v3-300x223.png 300w, http:\/\/www.clowersresearch.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Pulse_Comp_v3-768x571.png 768w, http:\/\/www.clowersresearch.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Pulse_Comp_v3-1024x761.png 1024w, http:\/\/www.clowersresearch.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Pulse_Comp_v3-202x150.png 202w, http:\/\/www.clowersresearch.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Pulse_Comp_v3-150x111.png 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Outside of an ionization source and a Faraday plate, a drift tube IMS system is fundamentally comprised of 5 primary components:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Reaction\/Drift Cell<\/li>\n<li>Ion Gate<\/li>\n<li>Gate Pulsing Electronics<\/li>\n<li>Current to Voltage Converter<\/li>\n<li>Data Acquisition System (DAQ)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Within the IMS research community hardware and DAQ solutions are often custom and rarely replicated exactly.\u00a0In an effort to address this knowledge and resource gap, the links posted below outline a range of solutions to the construction and operation of research-grade ion mobility spectrometers. \u00a0It is our sincere hope that this information will be useful to other research groups and encourage others to make suggestions and improvements. \u00a0The github links, including those from GAA Custom Engineering are found below:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/bhclowers\/FETPulser\">Ion Gate Pulser<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/bhclowers\/I2V-Converter\">Current to Voltage Converter<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/bhclowers\/WIPYDAQ\">WiPy DAQ System and GUI<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The most recent poster presented ISIMS 2016 in Boston, MA can be found here: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.clowersresearch.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Clowers_ISIMS_2016_v5.pdf\">Clowers_ISIMS_2016_v5<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Outside of an ionization source and a Faraday plate, a drift tube IMS system is fundamentally comprised of 5 primary components: Reaction\/Drift Cell Ion Gate Gate Pulsing Electronics Current to Voltage Converter Data Acquisition System (DAQ) Within the IMS research community hardware and DAQ solutions are often custom and rarely replicated exactly.\u00a0In an effort to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":297,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[7,17,12],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.clowersresearch.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Pulse_Comp_v3.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.clowersresearch.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.clowersresearch.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.clowersresearch.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.clowersresearch.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.clowersresearch.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=298"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.clowersresearch.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":312,"href":"http:\/\/www.clowersresearch.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298\/revisions\/312"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.clowersresearch.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.clowersresearch.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.clowersresearch.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.clowersresearch.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}