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SIMION Course Material

Listed here are various lecture and course notes found on the web useful to both teachers and students alike:

General Update

• SIMION advances
• SIMION Early Access Mode
• SIMION supplemental documentation

Introductory material

• SIMION 8 update Overview - Course Notes
• SIMION Physical Constants
• Flow chart of SIMION User Program Segment calls during a Fly
• NEW Flow chart of SIMION User Program Segment calls during a Fly
• Introduction to running the existing SIMION8 examples to get a general feel for SIMION's View screen user interface.
• SIMION8 Basics
• Potential array types
• Neumann boundary conditions
• Uniqueness theorem
• Magnets
• GEM Geometry file

Material from International Publications

• SIMION and thick lenses
  1. Aberration coefficients of multi-element cylindrical electrostatic lens systems for charged particle beam applications, Omer Sise, Melike Ulu, Mevlut Dogan, Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research A 573 (2007) 329–339 ()
  2. Studying charged particle optics: an undergraduate course, V Ovalle, D R Otomar, J M Pereira, N Ferreira, R R Pinho and A C F Santos, Eur. J. Phys. 29 (2008) 251–256 ()
     
• SIMION, spherical capacitor and simulation accuracy
  1. Investigation of the accuracy of ion optics simulations using
     Kepler orbits in a spherical capacitor, T.J.M. Zouros, Omer Sise, F.M. Spiegelhalder, David J. Manura, International Journal of Mass Spectrometry 261 (2007) 115–133 ()

More advanced material

This web site provides a basic introduction to inorganic isotope ratio mass spectrometry 
for both graduate students and professional scientists....

• Topic 1: Basics of Isotope Ratio Mass Spectrometers (ppt presentation)
• Topic 2: Ion Sources (ppt presentation)
• Topic 3: Magnetic Sector Mass Spectrometer Properties and Geometries (ppt presentation)
• Topic 4: Ion Collection/Detection, including New Multichannel Detectors
• Topic 5: Statistics of Ion Detection, Data Handling and Automation
  
  

• Topic 1: Basics of Ion Optics Simulations
• Topic 2: Ion Source and Lens Performance-Thermal Sources
• Topic 3: Mass Analyzers
• Topic 4: Detectors
  
  

• Ion Optics Through the Eyes of SIMION 6.0:
  An ASMS Short Course presented by David A. Dahl and Anthony D. Appelhans, Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory, May 1996
  • Course Notes (PDF)
  • Corresponding example files (1.5 MB)
    
• Advanced SIMION Ion Optics: An ASMS Course
  An ASMS 2000 Course by David A. Dahl and Anthony D. Appelhans, Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory, 2000
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. What's New
  • Trajectories and Instances
    • 3.a. Ion Trajectories (Lab) (Data Files)
    • 3.b. Array Instances (Lab) (Data Files)
  • 4. Geometry Files Introduction (Lab) (Data Files)
  • 5. 2D and 3D Projections (2D-3D Lab) (2D-3D Data Files) (Einzel Lab) (Einzel Data Files)
  • 6. Geometry File Tricks
  • 7. Complex Example (Notes) (Data Files)
  • 8. Creating a Geometry File (Lab) (Lab Notes) (Data Files) (Notes) (Data Files)
  • 9. User Program Introduction (Lab) (Data Files)
  • 10. Arrays and More (Lab) (Lab)
  • 11. User Programming Tricks
  • 12. User Programming Lab
  • 12.a. Measured Magnetic Fields (Reference)
  • 12.b. Ion Jumping Tricks (Reference)
  • 12.c. Non-ideal Grids (Reference)
  • 12.d. Monte Carlo (Reference)
  • Critical Timing Reference
  • Boundary Approach Reference
  Documentation in one big file (PDF)
  Download entire documentation and example file set. (ZIP, 54.3 MB)

Last Update: 07/06/13 11:57:25

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