Project Overview

Project Title:
Automated Testing Station for Sensing Applications

Project Abstract:
The goal of this project is to develop an automated probe station enclosed in a sealed housing for gas sensing and photodetection applications. The station will include a series of commercial LEDs mounted on a homemade PCB designed by our team. Through this PCB, we will be able to shine the sensor with pulses of different wavelengths under a vacuum or through different gasses. The current-voltage characteristics will be recorded using Keithley MU as a function of the gas type and quantity; the gas supple will be controlled with a homemade PCB coupled with a mass flow controller. The setup will be mainly used to evaluate the performance and sensing characteristics as well as the long-term stability of semiconductor materials and devices. Automated monitoring of all the key parameters and coding will help to accelerate the time for testing, data processing, and reporting. The setup will inclde resources from the Microelectronics Research Center (MRC) at Iowa State University, commercial LEDs and motors, and lab-made gas sensors and photodetectors. Our team will desgin/build PCBs for controlling the elctronic parts. Our team will also work with scientists in MRC to test gas sensors and photodetectors and analyze the data obtained.

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Team Members & Advisor

Thomas McCoy

Team Organizer/Software Developer

From: Brimfield, Illinois
Major: Software Engineering
Skills: Software development, Database management, Web-app development
Programing Languages: C, C++, C#, Java, Javascript, SQL, CSS, HTML

Garth Anderson

PCB Research & Design

Member Bio

Malvin Lim

PCB Research & Design

Member Bio

Matthew Rief

CAD Design

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Moneim Ismail

Advisor

Ph.D.: Materials Science & Engineering, Iowa State University, USA, 2015
MSc.: Experimental Physics, Mansoura University, Egypt, 2007
B.Sc.: Physics, Mansoura University, Egypt, 2003

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