MEFISTO Calibration Facility

MEsskammer für FlugzeitInStrumente und Time-Of-Flight
Calibration Facility for Solar Wind Instrumentation

In our laboratory called MEFISTO we are developing an electron-cyclotron-resonance ion source (ECRIS) for producing highly charged ions. The main goal of the MEFISTO source is to reproduce all the elements in their different charge states found in the solar wind. The ions produced in the source are mainly used to calibrate instruments for solar wind applications. The instruments for calibration and other experiments are placed in a vacuum chamber mounted next to the ECR source.

Physics Institute, Space Research and Planetary Sciences
Sidlerstrasse 5, 3012 Bern, Switzerland

Tel: +41 (0) 31 631 4411
Fax: +41 (0) 31 631 4405