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A method has been developed to obtain information about the chemical composition of micrometeoroids in laboratory conditions by analyzing the material residues of particles trapped in the craters formed on exposed to space surfaces of a matrix of thin film capacitors.
The paper presents a number of ion spectra collected by a mass – spectrometer with an electrostatic accelerator that is using a metal – dielectric – metal (MDM) film as a target. It is shown that such modification of the mass-spectrometer improved the efficiency of ion production and allowed to obtain information on elemental composition from a larger number of compounds. The theoretical basis for this phenomenon is considered.
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Semkin, N.D., Telegin, A.M., Voronov, K.E. (2013). Registering the Elemental Composition of Micrometeoroids and Debris. In: Kleiman, J., Tagawa, M., Kimoto, Y. (eds) Protection of Materials and Structures From the Space Environment. Astrophysics and Space Science Proceedings, vol 32. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-30229-9_24
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