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 Schematic of a Daly detector | |
| Inventor | Norman Richard Daly |
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| Related items | Microchannel plate detector Electron multiplier |
A Daly detector is a gas-phase ion detector that consists of a metal "doorknob", a scintillator (phosphor screen) and a photomultiplier.[1] It was named after its inventor Norman Richard Daly. Daly detectors are typically used in mass spectrometers.
- ^ N. R. Daly, Scintillation Type Mass Spectrometer ion Detector Archived 2012-07-17 at archive.today. Rev. Sci. Instrum. 31(3), 264–267 (1960).