This Major Qualifying Project (MQP) involved the design, assembly, and test of a system for carrying out alpha spectroscopy experiments at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. The system consists of a pre-amplifier, a Multi-Channel Analyzer, a laptop computer, a vacuum chamber, and assorted power supplies. The purpose of this system is to be able to perform preliminary testing on microelectronic devices without the expense of a time at a particle accelerator facility. In addition to building the system, data obtained using the system and other data from related accelerator experiments was analyzed.

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Creator

• Shear, Michael A.

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Identifier

• 99B019M

Advisor

• Looft, Fred J.

Year

• 1999

Center

• Goddard Space Flight Center Project Center - MQP

Date created

• 1999-01-01

Resource type

• Major Qualifying Project

Major

• Electrical Engineering

Rights statement

• In Copyright