{"id":243079,"date":"2016-07-13T02:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-07-12T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/?guid=e27a128437ea46b586f6ea7f0303ed7d"},"modified":"2016-07-13T02:00:00","modified_gmt":"2016-07-12T23:00:00","slug":"low-cost-3d-printing-used-in-an-undergraduate-project-an-integrating-sphere-for-measurement-ofphotoluminescence-quantum-yield","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/?p=243079","title":{"rendered":"Low cost 3D-printing used in an undergraduate project: an integrating sphere for measurement of\r\nphotoluminescence quantum yield"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We report upon the exploitation of the latest 3D printing technologies to provide low-cost<br \/>\ninstrumentation solutions, for use in an undergraduate level final-year project. The project<br \/>\naddresses prescient research issues in optoelectronics, which would otherwise be inaccessible to<br \/>\nsuch undergraduate student projects. The experimental use of an integrating sphere in conjunction<br \/>\nwith a desktop spectrometer presents opportunities to use easily handled, low cost materials as a<br \/>\nmeans to illustrate many areas of physics such as spectroscopy, lasers, optics, simple circuits,<br \/>\nblack body radiation and data gathering. Presented here is a 3rd year undergraduate physics project<br \/>\nwhich developed a low cost (\u00a325) method to manufacture an experimentally accurate integrating sphere<br \/>\nby 3D printing. Details are given of both a homemade internal reflectance coating formulated from<br \/>\nreadily available materials, and a robust instrument calibration method using a tungsten bulb. The<br \/>\ninstrument is demonst&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We report upon the exploitation of the latest 3D printing technologies to provide low-cost<br \/>\ninstrumentation solutions, for use in an undergraduate level final-year project. The project<br \/>\naddresses prescient research issues in optoelectronics, which woul&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[178],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-243079","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-rss-fuusikaharidus","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=243079"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243079\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=243079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=243079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=243079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}