Diagnostics
EPPDyL has a strong history of plasma diagnostics through both direct and indirect methods. The lab has the following capabilities:
Probes
- Langmuir probes (single, double, triple)
- Emissive probes
- Faraday cups
- Mach probes
- B-dot probes
- Retarding Probe Analyzer (RPA)
- Rogowski coils
Light and Spectroscopy
- Visible-spectrum spectrometer (400-800 nm)
- SPEX 1702/1704 spectrometer (0-15000 Angstroms)
- Laser-Induced Fluorescence for Argon gas
- Princeton Instruments CCD Camera
- Leeds and Northrup 8620-series Optical Pyrometer
- Multispec MSTI-04V Thermo Imager
- CO2 Spectrum Analyzer 16-A
Radio-frequency
- HP 8757A Vector Network Analyzer
- HP 8553B Spectrum Analyzer
- HP 438A Power Meter
- MFJ HF/VHF Antenna Analyzer
- X-band microwave reflectometry
- Mini-circuits power meters
- Pearson coils
Additional diagnostics
- Lakeshore 425 Gaussmeter
- Residual gas analyzer (QMS200 Prisma, MKS Vac-Check, UTI 100C)
- Various oscilloscopes (up to 1M-points resolution)