Summary and Significance for Differential IMS

The ion transport in strong electric fields would have likely remained a matter of academic curiosity if not for the advent of differential MS paradigm. The impact of field intensity on the mobility and, to a lesser extent, diffusion of ions in gases is as 

The emergence of differential IMS has already revived interest in the older work on high-field ion mobility fundamentals. The ongoing rapid development of this technology and its analytical applications will sure prompt further efforts that would improve the understanding of high-field phenomena described above and perhaps lead to discovery of their unforeseen combinations and even totally new effects. With that, we move to discuss the implementation and use of differential IMS and specifically FAIMS in the rest of this book. 

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