Development Of A Test Bed For Ultrasonic Transducer Characterization (1 S/B)
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Short Description
Evaluation and tuning of ultrasonic transducer performances can be realized with the help of a test bench. This setup consists of a physical test bench with the transducer and associated components such as a vector network analyzer, amplifiers and electrical matching networks, as well as a virtual test bed that models the behavior of the network using simulation software. In software these blocks are built and cascaded as single blackbox components with python scikit-rf. Due to the desired modularity in software and hardware, a high flexibility of the setup for the adaptation of different transducer types and setups can be guaranteed.
Status: Available
- Looking for 1 Semester/Bachelor students
- Contact: Christoph Leitner, Federico Villani
Prerequisites
- Analog Mixed Signal Design
- Network Theory (helpful but not required)
- Python (packages: numpy, scipy, scikit-rf)
- PCB Design
Character
- 20% Literature research
- 40% Programming
- 30% PCB design
- 10% Testing
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Detailed Task Description
The goal of this work is to develop a modular system for characterizing ultrasonic transducers both in hardware and software. The physical test bench will combine a vector network analyzer, a dedicated amplifier stage, and a matching network as well as the actual transducer (device under test).
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