ECE 480-Senior Project Design Team 12

Team 12– Diamond Optical Properties Measurement System

Sponsor: Fraunhofer

The Fraunhofer Center for Coatings and Laser Applications is interested in improvements to the accuracy and sensitivity of their diamond optical properties measurement system.  Fraunhofer grows some of the highest quality diamond in the world.  A senior capstone team was tasked with creating the measurement system in the spring of 2013, and Fraunhofer was dissatisfied with the result.  The goal of this project is to improve upon the previous system in all areas.  This includes the computer interface, the hardware components, and the resulting measurements.

 

 

Prototype for birefringence measurement system.  Note that the final prototype has a horizontally sliding front door instead of the vertically sliding door of this prototype.