Phrases with «ion trap»

An ion trap is a device that can hold and control charged particles called ions. It uses electric and magnetic fields to confine, manipulate, and study these ions. It's like a "trap" that captures ions and keeps them in a specific area for scientific experiments or technological applications. Full definition

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Sentences with «ion trap»

  • I invited him to visit a laboratory in Innsbruck, which has ion traps for individual atoms, and you can usually look at an atom there. (discovermagazine.com)
  • Ion trap used in NIST quantum computing experiments demonstrating logic operations with two different types of ions (charged atoms). (nist.gov)
  • The quantum Zeno effect was first observed experimentally in 1989 in laser - cooled ions trapped by magnetic and electric fields. (scientificamerican.com)
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