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PHYS 476 - Spring 2008
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| * Spring 2008 Projects: | |||
| MP3
Player/oscilloscope - by Matt Andrew |
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| MPPC
Timing Evaluation Board - by Kurtis Nishimura |
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| Silicon
Strip Readout ASIC Evaluation Board - by Himansu Sahoo and
Li Jin |
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| As a
starting point, PHYS475 provides an introduction to electronics
concepts. However, the field of electronics is too broad to cover in
one semester while providing any kind of application to experimental
physics problems encountered in a modern research environment.
Meanwhile, the bread-boarding and discrete component techniques
utilized, out of necessity and for pedagogical reasons, are far removed
from the way in which modern electronics is utilized as a tool. In the
last decade there has been an explosion in the development of
integrated circuit devices which form both sensor and readout
instrumentation, applicable to almost every field of experimental
physics research. The purpose of this course is to provide an
introduction to these devices by means of the practicing electronics as
it is actually done in industry or a world-class university research
environment.
PHYS476 is intended
as a survey course of useful methods and tools, the goal is to provide
sufficient instruction that students will be competent to practice
electronics in a research laboratory environment. As such, a final
student project is a key aspect of the course. Each student will
design, fabricate and test a circuit that is usable for addressing some
practical physics research instrumentation issue. A brief summary
report and presentation will be required. |
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| * Spring 2007 Projects: | PRH Stabilization Controller - by Mike Hadmack | Magnet Control System for UH FEL Beamline - by Bryce Jacobson | CCD Imager High Voltage Control IC - by Aaron Koga |
| * Spring 2006 Projects: | PoGO - by Michael Cooney | STaR Board - by Jamal Rorie | SOI Hard-Xray Pixel Prototype sensor readout - by Elena Martin |