In this thesis we present a computational study of “ion crystals”, the interesting patterns in which ions arrange themselves in ion traps such as Paul and Penning traps. In ion crystals the ions are in equilibrium due to ...

In this thesis we have focussed on two types of axially symmetric ion trap mass analysers viz., the quadrupole ion trap mass analyser and the toroidal ion trap mass analyser. We have undertaken three numerical studies in ...