Facilities
The CCLDAS is available for use by scientists and students from other institutions. The CCLDAS staff can help you design an experiment or set of experiments that meet your needs.
The CCLDAS supports experimental facilities for carrying out small-scale, dusty plasma experiments.
Photos of some of the CCLDAS equipment.
- Exposure to UV beams
- Exposure to electrons and ions of designated energies
Diagnostic capabilities:
- Charges of individual grains
- Standard Langmuir probe and/or emissive probe scan
- Imaging, stills and movies
Chamber sizes:
- 30 cm in diameter and 35 or 70 cm long, base pressure ~6 x 10-7 Torr
- 51 cm in diameter and 28 cm high, base pressure <1 x 10-6 Torr
Facilities (in development for 2010)
- 3 MeV dust accelerator
- Particle sizes: 0.2 - 2.5 μm
- Particle velocities: < 100 km/s
- Large test chamber
- UV sources
- Solar wind simulator
- Various targets
- Small (UHV) test chamber
- Microphysics diagnostics
- Additional 20 kV 'mini' accelerator
- Prototype dust head, detectors, etc.
For questions you may have about your analysis, please contact:
Professor Mihály Horányi
Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics
1234 Innovation Drive
University of Colorado
Boulder, CO 80303
Telephone: 303-492-6903
Mihaly <dot> horanyi <at> lasp <dot> colorado <dot> edu
Note to students
- We strongly support student projects, both graduate and undergraduate
- If you have a limited number of samples and an even more limited source of funding, we may be able to help
- Contact CCLDAS for details