Exploiting the Physics of Ion Energy Loss in Solid State Detectors for Composition Measurement of Space Plasmas_Laboratory and Space Plasma Data

Laboratory data from:Funsten, et al., Fundamental Limits to Detection of Low Energy Ions Using Silicon Solid State Detectors. Appl. Phys. Lett., 84 (2004) 3552-3554. doi:10.1063/1.1719272Funsten, et al., Energy Loss by keV Ions in Silicon. Phys. Rev. Lett., 92 (2004) 213201-4. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.92.213201 Space plasma data from instrument at geosynchronous orbit for one day. Data are pulse height distributions from a solid state detector for several energy passbands of an electrostatic energy analyzer that precedes the solid state detector.