Meaning of Faraday cup | Babel Free

Definitions

A conductive metal cup designed to catch charged particles in vacuum.

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“The inner cylinder of the Faraday cup is electrically connected to the brass plug, and is the electrically active part of the unit.”

“In many mass spectrometers for electric ion detection a Faraday cup is generally used today for the direct and accurate measurement of ion currents of separated ion beams, especially if relatively high ion currents are to be measured.”

“Faraday cups are the detectors of choice for precise and accurate isotope ratio measurements.”

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