Surface Analysis by Resonance Ionization of Sputtered Atoms (SARISA), developed and built at Argonne, uses lasers to ionize material desorbed by sputtering from the surface of a specimen and analyzes it with a mass spectrometer. The purity standards required the Genesis project pushed even this device to its limits.
Analysis of the solar wind samples will require even
better detection methods. The SARISA Team is currently
writing a proposal to develop a super-SARISA with further
developed detection methods in place. |
