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Exploring the Different Types of Aircraft Vibrations GalleryExploring the Different Types of Aircraft Vibrations
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Exploring the Different Types of Aircraft Vibrations
There are two main types of aircraft vibrations: normal and abnormal. Normal vibrations regularly occur when an airplane is in flight and during takeoff and landing. These oscillating or reciprocating motions do not indicate potential defects with the aircraft or its engines and can be explained by routine operations such as flying through turbulence or extending or retracting the landing gear. With abnormal vibrations, a mechanical defect or condition is to blame. If this is not corrected, further damage and even catastrophic failure may occur. What are the causes of aircraft vibrations? The causes of aircraft vibrations include: engine [...]
Automotive & Electric Vehicle Applications
Automotive & Electric Vehicle Applications Automotive manufacturers often require specialized testing to meet safety and regulatory requirements that ensure that their vehicles comply with all relevant regulations and industry standards. Some tests include cable and harness cable testing, tire, brake and rotor testing as well as EV battery compliance requirements. By prioritizing testing and compliance solutions, manufacturers can enhance their reputation, ensure customer safety, and avoid potential legal and financial liabilities. See below for details on how Vitrek's portfolio of solutions can support your next automotive testing requirements. High-Accuracy Capacitive Thickness Measurement [...]
How Capacitive Measurement Can Help Reduce Packaging Waste
Product packaging is often made of lightweight polymeric foams or plastic sheets and films. These materials are relatively inexpensive, but manufacturers still want to minimize waste and maximize yields. Across high volumes of low-cost materials, even a small per-unit savings can become significant, especially as the price of petroleum – a key ingredient in many polymers – continues to rise. For companies with environmental sustainability efforts, there are other important considerations as well. The excessive use of packaging materials can contribute to environmental pollution, especially with polymers that are slow to degrade. Yet, materials such as plastic sheets and [...]
Vitrek Power Analyzers — Key Takeaways From Our Webinar
Power analyzers are a critical component of knowing the energy output of a given device once it’s turned on. Understanding the power consumption of specific units with a high degree of accuracy can help assess their overall performance and whether you need to perform a more in-depth maintenance check. […]
High-Speed A/D 16-Bit Digitizers
GaGe 16-bit resolution digitizer models divide the input voltage range into 65,536 different digitization levels, which improves the delectability limit by a factor of 4 over the 16,384 levels of a 14-bit resolution digitizer model, a factor of 16 over the 4,096 levels of a 12-bit resolution digitizer model, and a factor of 256 over the 256 levels of an 8-bit resolution digitizer model. GaGe 16-bit digitizers feature sampling rates at up to 1 GigaSample per second (GS/s). They are available with 2 or 4 digitizing channels, input bandwidths of up to 600 MHz, deep onboard sample memory of [...]
GaGe White Paper: ENOB: The Best Digitizer Performance Metric
Introduction Figure 1. GaGe High-Speed Digitizers including PC Oscilloscope Software, powerful SDKs for custom application development and turnkey integrated PC-based measurement systems. While the nominal vertical resolution of a high-speed waveform digitizer (specified in bits) is often promoted, its true performance is provided by its measured Dynamic Parameters and in particular by its Effective Number of Bits (ENOB). This article describes measurement of the Dynamic Parameters and presents measurements for a leading-edge GaGe 12-bit Digitizer. A widely used digitizer-like device, the Digital Storage Oscilloscope (DSO), is optimized for the visualization of unknown signals. The relatively [...]
High-Speed Digitizers
High-Speed Digitizers / Oscilloscopes GaGe high-performance digitizers are renowned for sustaining the maximum effective number of bits (ENOB) over a wide signal frequency range with quality signal conditioning and signal fidelity features. With sampling rates up to 6 GS/s and very deep onboard acquisition memory of up to 16 GB, our high-speed PCIe and PXIe digitizers provide optimal combinations of high sampling speeds with 8-bit, 12-bit, 14-bit, and 16-bit high-resolution rates with large sampling memory options and high-speed data streaming capabilities. DIGITIZER OVERVIEW View GaGe Digitizer Advantages View GaGe on Google Scholar [...]
Non-Contact Displacement Sensors for Detection and Measurement
Non-contact sensors detect or measure a physical property without making direct contact with the target, the object that is being monitored or measured. They are used to measure physical properties such as thickness, proximity, displacement, or distance. To obtain readings, non-contact displacement sensors emit a form of energy and may use capacitance, fiber optic, or laser triangulation technologies. By contrast, contact sensors must touch the target and often rely upon mechanical movement. Non-Contact Sensors vs. Contact Sensors Non-contact sensors are faster, especially for applications with high sampling rates, and won’t dampen the motion of a target. They can also [...]
KineticSystem
KineticSystems is a legacy product brand of Vitrek, LLC and all KineticSystems based technology has been incorporated into our current GaGe product brand providing PC-based high-speed and real-time signal acquisition, processing and recording systems. Please visit our GaGe product brand for current product solutions: High-Speed Data Acquisition & Signal Recording Systems View Products For legacy KineticSystems product support, please submit a request through our GaGe Technical Support Request for assistance: GaGe Technical Support Request
Advantages of Measuring Semiconductor Thin Film Thickness with Capacitance GalleryAdvantages of Measuring Semiconductor Thin Film Thickness with Capacitance
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Advantages of Measuring Semiconductor Thin Film Thickness with Capacitance
Semiconductor Thin Films: Measuring Thickness with Capacitance In the semiconductor industry, thin films are deposited onto silicon and other wafer materials one atomic layer at a time. The thickness of these extremely thin coatings is important because thin-film thickness affects the wafer’s electrical, optical, and mechanical properties. With semiconductors, either conductive metallic films or non-conductive metal oxide films are deposited. There are two main thin-film coating methods, chemical vapor deposition (CVD) and physical vapor deposition (PVD), both of which use a variety of processes. Because the coatings for semiconductor wafers are so thin, thickness measurement require a high degree [...]