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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 10, 1996
Filed:
Oct. 30, 1995
Michael A Kelly, Portola Valley, CA (US);
Other;
Abstract
A charged particle energy analyzer having higher sensitivity than conventional analyzers inserts a substantially parallel beam of charged particles into a uniform magnetic field at an angle to the field direction. The charged particles travel along the field direction and rotate perpendicular to it, forming helical trajectories. After traveling a given distance in the field direction, the total rotation each charged particle has undergone is measured. Because the total rotation is uniquely related to the energy of the particle, a spectrum showing the energy distribution of all the particles in the beam can be derived from these measurements. The enhanced sensitivity of this analyzer results from its ability to simultaneously analyze all the particles in a beam having a large energy spread.