General Description
- Vacuum chamber for the development and calibration of prototypes and flight ion sensors
- Secondary “science” chamber with a rapid pump down time for quick changes
Lab Capabilities
- Ion beam can be shaped (size and location) and rastered with energies of 1 – 50 keV
- Mixed gas source along with an ExB filter allows for the selection of mass per charge
- 4 degree of freedom positioning system
- Quantar microchannel plate imager to characterize the shape an location of the beam
- Pressure can go below 10-6 Torr, chamber door opens to a class 10000 cleanroom
- RGA, Webcams, pressure, temperature sensors: all computer controlled and monitored
