Measuring and testing – Meteorology – Electric disturbance
Patent
1989-06-21
1990-10-23
Raevis, Robert
Measuring and testing
Meteorology
Electric disturbance
G01W 100
Patent
active
049643002
ABSTRACT:
A space particle collector for recording the time specific particles are captured, and its direction at the time of capture, utilizes an array of targets, each comprised of an MOS capacitor on a chip charged from an external source and discharged upon impact by a particle through a tab on the chip that serves as a fuse. Any impacting particle creates a crater, but only the first will cause a discharge of the capacitor. A substantial part of the metal film around the first crater is burned off by the discharge current. The time of the impulse which burns the tab, and the identification of the target, is recorded together with data from flight instruments. The metal film is partitioned into pie sections to provide a plurality of targets on each of an array of silicon wafers, thus increasing the total number of identified particles that can be collected. It is thus certain which particles have been captured at what specific times.
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Humes Donald H.
Kassel, Jr. Philip C.
Kinard William H.
Singer S. Fred
Stanley, deceased John E.
Adams Harold W.
Helfrich George F.
Manning John R.
Raevis Robert
The United States of America as represented by the Administrator
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