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Articles | Volume 11, issue 9
Articles | Volume 11, issue 9
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-11-5299-2018
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Articles | Volume 11, issue 9
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20 Sep 2018
Research article |  | 20 Sep 2018

Photocurrent modelling and experimental confirmation for meteoric smoke particle detectors on board atmospheric sounding rockets

Gabriel Giono, Boris Strelnikov, Heiner Asmus, Tristan Staszak, Nickolay Ivchenko, and Franz-Josef Lübken

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Energetic photons, such as ultraviolet light, are able to eject electrons from a material surface, thus creating an electrical current, also called a photocurrent. A proper estimation of this photocurrent can be crucial for space- or rocket-borne particle detectors, as it can dominate over the currents that are of scientific interest (induced by charged particles, for example). This article outlines the design for photocurrent modelling and for experimental confirmation in a laboratory.
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