Project cooperationUpdated on 16 June 2025

Dust detector development

Veerle Sterken

ERC Starting Grant PI at Astrodust research group - ETHZ

Zürich, Switzerland

About

We're looking for possible partners / collaborators for hardware development. The dust impact detectors are based on impact ionization, i.e. when dust impacts faster than 1 km/s, it ionizes and vaporizes. The ions can be used for time-of-flight mass spectroscopy, or generally the ions and electrons are measured for gaining information on the dust impact speed and mass.

Stage

  • Early
  • Planning

Type

  • Research
  • Technical
  • Financing

Organisation

Astrodust research group - ETHZ

University

Zürich, Switzerland

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