Building the Langmuir Probe

20 07 2011

All photos.

Today I began fabricating the Langmuir probe.

I am using a tungsten light bulb filament as the probe tip:

The rest is just ceramic tubing to hold it in place.  The filament is so thin and so fragile.

I use insulating varnish to hold it all together. I have to let this cure over night:

This will attach to the feedthrough:

The Langmuir probe will show the floating potential of the plasma… The dependent variable in the Sydney Experiment.








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