3D Printing for Repair Guide

This guide takes the reader through the 3D Printing for Repair (3DP4R) process. It consists of guidelines and tools to create a 3D printable version of spare parts needed for a product repair. 3D printing a spare part is more than just printing the original part. Instead, it is an iterative process in which the part is analysed, redesigned,...

Susceptibility Study of TES Micro‑calorimeters for X‑ray Spectroscopy Under FDM Readout

We present a characterization of the sensitivity of TES X-ray micro-calorimeters to environmental conditions under frequency-domain multiplexing (FDM) readout. In the FDM scheme, each TES in a readout chain is in series with a LC band-pass filter and AC biased with an independent carrier at MHz range. Using TES arrays, cold readout circuitry and...

Pollution and accuracy of solutions of the Helmholtz equation: A novel perspective from the eigenvalues

In researching the Helmholtz equation, the focus has either been on the accuracy of the numerical solution (pollution) or the acceleration of the convergence of a preconditioned Krylov-based solver (scalability). While it is widely recognized that the convergence properties can be investigated by studying the eigenvalues, information from the...

3D Hatching: Linear halftoning for dual extrusion fused deposition modeling

This work presents halftoning techniques to manufacture 3D objects with the appearance of full grayscale imagery for Fused Deposition Modeling (FDM) printers. While droplet-based dithering is a common halftoning technique, this is not applicable to FDM printing, since FDM builds up objects by extruding material in semi-continuous paths. A set...

Readout of a 176 pixel FDM system for SAFARI TES arrays

In this paper we present the results of our 176-pixel prototype of the FDM readout system for SAFARI, a TES-based focal-plane instrument for the far-IR SPICA mission. We have implemented the knowledge obtained from the detailed study on electrical crosstalk reported previously. The effect of carrier leakage is reduced by a factor two, mutual...

The SPICA-SAFARI TES Bolometer Readout: Developments Towards a Flight System

SAFARI is an imaging Fourier Transform Spectrometer for 35–200 ?m under development for flight on the Japanese IR-satellite SPICA (2018). The 3.25 m diameter actively cooled telescope (<6K) will provide a sky background limited signal, which implies that detectors will need to have an NEP of 3.5?10 ?19 W/Hz ? ? ? in order not to be limiting the...