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Projects
Project 1 (Example)
Keep a very brief description of a project or even a suggestion here, and perhaps the names of the team members, or who to contact if there is interest to join. Once the project has stabilized, keep stuff in the project page linked by the headline.
Simple Optical Heart Rate Monitor
Team member: Yang Meng Ting
This project demonstrates the principles of photoplethysmography (PPG) through the construction of a simple device to measure heart rate. The project involves using an pulse sensor to detect variations in light absorption caused by changes in blood volume during each heartbeat.
Gas sensor
Team members: Fu Xinming, Ge Yexiao, Yang Haoqing
This project aims to use high and low detection methods of tin dioxide (SnO2) sensor to detect carbon monoxide or other combustible gases.
Optical Sensor for Noise Flickering
Group Members: Eric Cheung; Lee An Min, Amanda; Loh Jia Ying Whitney
This project aims to use a simple voltage divider made up with resistors and LDR to measure visual noise tags.
Real time temperature alarm
Team members: Huang Haowei, You Mingkai
This project aims to build a system using Python and Raspberry Pi to measure and display temperature in real-time using temperature sensors, and to issue an alarm when the temperature exceeds the set threshold
Impedance Spectroscopy for Detecting Phase Transitions in KBr
Team: Laphas Precmcharoen, Song RunLin, Gao Jia
This project aims to use Impedance spectroscopy as a sensor to detect phase transition in Potassium Bromide (KBr).
Sensor for locating sound sources
Team: Wang Liyue, Li Jiaqi, Su Qiqi, Wang Tongxu
A microphone array is used to capture sound signals, and the direction of the sound source is determined by analyzing the time difference of sound signals received by different microphones.
Optical Sensor for UV Radiation
Team: LiJiasheng, ChenXingjian, LiXuejian
This project aims to design a photodiode-based optical sensor to detect UV radiation levels.
High Sensitive Position Sensor based on PDH technique
Group Members: Angela Anna Baiju, Chenyue Gu
This project uses PDH locking technique to align a cavity to its resonance and read out the error signal to analyse the position change and other noises present in the system.
LEDs as Photodiodes
Group Members: Abas Syahbana, Lu Xinghaou
In this project, we will use several LEDs as Photodiodes. When an LED receive light, it produces signal that we can detect. We will see the relation between currents that represent the signal and currents for the light source.
Temperature Sensor
Team: Duan Xitong, Hu Anqi, Ge Weifang
This project aims to construct a portable non-contact thermometer to detect the component temperature after the circuit board is energized, thereby preventing burns from direct contact.
Quartz Crystal MicroBalance (QCM)
Team: Tan Jhoon Yong
This project aims to create a quartz crystal microbalance that can measure small masses (on the order of micrograms and below) for a start. The bigger goal would be to create one that can detect the thicknesses of thin films.
Resources
Recorded sessions
Devices and material
Apart form the stuff in the teaching lab, we have a resources you may want to consider for your project:
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Books and links
Software
- Various Python extensions. Python is a very powerful free programming language that runs on just about any computer platform. It is open source and completely free.
- Gnuplot: A free and very mature data display tool that works on just about any platform used that produces excellent publication-grade eps and pdf figures. Can be also used in scripts. Open source and completely free.
- Matlab: Very common, good toolset also for formal mathematics, good graphics. Expensive. We may have a site license, but I am not sure how painful it is for us to get a license for this course. Ask if interested.
- Mathematica: More common among theroetical physicists, very good in formal maths, now with better numerics. Graphs are ok but can be a pain to make looking good. As with Matlab, we do have a campus license. Ask if interested.
Data sheets
A number of components might be useful for several groups. Some common data sheets are here:
- Generic Silicon pin Photodiode type BPW34
- Digital microphone SPH0655LM4H-1; a small adapter board exists (see Soldering small parts)
- Thermistor type B57861S (R0=10kΩ, B=3988Kelvin). Search for Steinhart-Hart equation. See Thermistor page here as well.
- Resistor color codes are explained here