Space Simulation Chamber

The chamber with plasma source attached, as prepared by 
M.Sc. student Karianne Dyrland

Left: Inside the chamber, with source operating.
Right: Langmuir probe used for initial plasma diagnostics.

 

Left: Kenneth Nilsen’s experimental setup for arc experiment

 

Arc signals as recorded by movable probe with sampling rate 2.5 GHz

 

 

Some publications:

K. Nilsen, Å. Fredriksen, and I. Mann;
Plasma clouds from vacuum arcs in a laboratory experiments – a possible simulation tool for impact clouds from hypervelocity dust impact?
8th International Conference on the Physics of Dusty Plasmas May 20–25, 2017,Prague, S.03

Kenneth Nilsen:
Plasma cloud detection and diagnostics from arcing by conditional averaging
Cand. Scient. Thesis, 2017

Karianne Dyrland:
Installation and characterization of an electron bombardment ion source for a Space Simulation Chamber (SSC)
Cand. Scient. Thesis, 2016

Å. Fredriksen,
Presentation about SSC, Fysikermøtet 2015