IR Communication Channel Supplemental SWNT Component
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Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
SDP team Yngvesson
Ioan TiheneaTomas Broka
Dmitriy StupakSergey Derivolkov
IR Communication Channel
Supplemental SWNT Component
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Design OverviewFor our Senior Design Project we were working on creating a communication system that has two computer interface terminals and hardware circuitry components on each end and an Infrared communication channel (transceiver) in the center.
The key component to our SDP project was a Single Walled Carbon Nanotube (SWNT) thin film detector detecting IR radiation. Due to technical issues, the SWNT thin film detector will be simulated with a photosensitive diode.
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System OverviewComputer Interface
Signal Processing
Transceiver
Computer Interface
Signal Processing
Input from keyboard by user CPU
USB Interface
Software
MultiprocessorDigital to
Analog circuit
Focusing Lenses
USB Cable
IR Radiation
2 wire cable
Legend
Bolometer Analog to Digital Circuit
Multiprocessor
USB Interface
CPU Display
Software
System Block Diagram
LED emiter SWNT film Detector
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What happened to the SWNT Thin Film Idea/Theory Materials
• Budget Constraints Process
• First Attempts• Using Different Carbon Nanotubes• Wider Holes on Devices• Following the Literature
Challenges• Quality of Film• Survival of the Acetone Bath
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Circuitry and Program AspectsProgramThe Logic of the ProgramTransmitter End MCUReceiver End MCU
CircuitryTransmitter CircuitryReceiver Circuitry
• Multiple Stage Amplifiers• Flexibility of Design
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Signal analysis Using a multimeter we detected a signal in a
range of 0.3 mV to 0.6 mV. When a film that was detecting a signal in the
above range was put on our breadboard, we were not able to detect any signal, the oscilloscope would show only noise.
We shielded the board also used a battery to eliminate 60 Hz noise but signal still couldn’t be detected.
The performance of our circuit couldn’t be determined.
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Signal analysis cont. Replaced the film with a photodiode and the
signal could be detected easily. Using an active probe we were able to detect a
signal of 2mV (in a distance of 200cm between IR LED and the photodiode at a frequency of 500 Hz).
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Signal analysis cont.
Using a passive probe, to measure the signal from our circuit (photodiode connected to amplifier) the lowest signal peak to peak to be detected was 1.6 mV.
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Signal to noise ratio (S/N) S/N is 1.3. S/N needs to be higher than 3 for the circuit to
work properly. We conclude that our signal need to be higher
than 5 mV to be detected by our circuit.
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Demo
Demo Presentation
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