Talk:Penning trap
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Isn't the one who discovered/invented this F. M. Penning? Or more exactly: I'm quite sure he is, it's the grandfather of a good friend of mine. I haven't got enough knowledge to say something about it though, perhaps someone else can. http://nobelprize.org/physics/laureates/1989/illpres/precision.html
I think the diagram which is shown is rather ambiguous. The caption explains what everything is, but it doesn't give me a very good idea of the spatial arrangement. --72.140.146.246 13:42, 3 June 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Penning invented the Penning trap
The last sentence of the first paragraph is incorrect. Hans G. Dehmelt in his own Nobel Lecture (http://nobelprize.org/physics/laureates/1989/dehmelt-lecture.pdf) refers to his apparatus as a 'Penning Trap'. Dehmelt's Nobel was awarded "for the development of the ion trap technique" (http://nobelprize.org/physics/laureates/1989/index.html).
[edit] Until what?
"To trap them energy has to be pumped into the magnetron motion, until ..." —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 63.100.100.5 (talk • contribs) .
- I was just thinking the same thing... —Keenan Pepper 18:11, 31 May 2006 (UTC)
- I've removed the offending sentence and tried to replace it with something more helfpul. Whosasking 15:07, 13 June 2006 (UTC) 15:07, 13 June 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Fusion
If memory serves, Penning traps have been proposed as the basis for a type of fusion reactor. I can't remember the source, unfortunately, perhaps someone else can? -- Whitepaw 17:07, 3 September 2006 (UTC)
