Ion_time-of-flight_spectrometer

Copyright WDC C1 for STP at RAL.

This instrument, known as SULEICA (Suprathermal Energy Ionic Charge Analyser), was supplied by the Max-Planck Institut fuer extraterrestrische Physik. It used a combination of electrostatic deflection, time-of-flight measurement and energy analysis in solid-state detectors. From these it was able to distinguish the charge and mass of all major ions from hydrogen through to iron for ion energies between 5 and 270 keV/q. Full details are available in the following paper:

• E Moebius et al., The time-of-flight spectrometer SULEICA for ions of energy range 5-270 kev/charge on AMPTE IRM, IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, Vol GE-23, No. 3, May 1985, 274-279.

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