Sep 11, 2023 | Application, Electronics
Elvira Orduna-Hospital, María Munarriz-Escribano, Ana Sanchez-Cano August 20, 2023 | Department of Applied Physics, University of Zaragoza, 50009 Zaragoza, Spain Back to school marks a fresh start for reading and learning! Electronic devices have become a common...
Jul 7, 2021 | Electronics, Glossary of Spectroscopy Terms, Spectrograph
A digitizer is a device that takes analog information and converts it into a digital form. The ‘bit’ is the amount of memory the digitizer has. In a 16-bit digitizer, you have 16 bits of memory. For our spectrometers, this translates to being able to measure 65536...
Nov 10, 2017 | Detectors, Electronics, Glossary of Spectroscopy Terms
The baseline offset is the number of counts generated by the detector when there is no light. Several sources of noise are always present, so it is impossible to have no counts. The main components of baseline offset are electronic offset, dark current, and readout...