Electronics Workshop
Services
The electronics workshop supports the members of the Physik-Institut in all electronic aspects of tools, devices and experimental setups.
Our services include:
- consultations and support for external procurement of equipment
- in-house design of new electronic systems
- schematic design and board layout (including multilayer boards and special substrates)
- part assembly (THT and SMD down to 0201), manual assembly with soldering iron or hot-air reflow
- in-house prototyping, coordination of small and large scale production with industrial partners
- system commissioning and maintenance
- fault diagnosis and repair jobs (including 3rd party devices)
- part procurement
- stocking of electronic consumables and small parts
Technical expertise
The electronics workshop has experience in the following areas (not complete):
- data acquisition systems (high resolution or fast sampling rates)
- FPGA design
- design and construction of 230/400V control cabinets
- process control and automation
- low-noise amplifiers for smallest signals
- high frequency circuits (up to 10 GHz), small signal and power applications
- fast data transmission circuits (several Gbit/s)
- electronics for cryogenic applications
- power electronics
- microcontroller designs (Microchip, AVR, Arduino)
- fiberoptic data transmission
- radiation tolerant electronics
- special board designs (e.g. low radiation, low mass, reduced material budget)
Instrumentation
We are equipped with numerous measurement devices and test facilities for measurement and characterization of electronic circuits (selection):
- temperature and climate chamber (-70 to +180 degC, 0-100% humidity)
- EMC room (ca. 5 sq.m.)
- oscilloscopes up to 6 GHz bandwidth
- signal generator up to 6 GHz
- spectrum analyzer up to 3 GHz
- arbitrary function generator, 1 GS/s
- 10 MHz frequency references, accuracy <1E-11
- frequency counter, 6 GHz, 12-digit
- high voltage power supplies up to 70kV, high current power supplies up to 40A
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Education and training
The electronics workshop has two apprentices for the professional education 'Elektroniker EFZ'. Further information can be found here.