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PROCEEDINGS OF THE WORKSHOP ON KNUDSEN EFFUSION MASS SPECTROMETRY
Volume 46, Issue 1, Pages 197-209Publisher
ELECTROCHEMICAL SOC INC
DOI: 10.1149/04601.0197ecst
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- NASA's Fundamental Aeronautics Program
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Multi-cell KEMS offers many advantages over single cell instruments in regard to in-situ temperature calibration and studies on high temperature alloys and oxides of interest to NASA. The instrument at NASA Glenn is a 90 degrees magnetic sector instrument originally designed for single cell operation. The conversion of this instrument to a multi-cell instrument with restricted collimation is discussed. For restricted collimation, the 'field aperture' is in the copper plate separating the Knudsen Cell region and the ionizer and the 'source aperture' is adjacent to the ionizer box. A computer controlled x-y table allows positioning of one of the three cells into the sampling region. Heating is accomplished via a Ta sheet element and temperature is measured via an automatic pyrometer from the bottom of the cells. The computer control and data system have been custom developed for this instrument and are discussed. Future improvements are also discussed.
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