General Description
- Advanced instrument development and calibration originally designed and built to support the Hot Plasma Composition Analyzer (HPCA) instrument for the Magnetosphere Multiscale mission (MMS)
Lab Capabilities
- Chamber opens to a class 10000 cleanroom
- Ion source can go from 100 eV to 40 keV using H+, Ar+, Ne+, He+, N+ (other gasses possible)
- High resolution ExB filter using an adjustable magnetic field
- Can pump down to ~10-7 Torr
- 3 axis motion control system