Design and development of low cost thermoluminescence measurement system using PIC16F877 microcontroller

Journal of Instrumentation

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 1-6

  Neelamegam, P ^a   Rajendran, A ^b  

^a SASTRA UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b NEHRU MEMORIAL COLLEGE   (India)

Author keywords

Data acquisition circuits; Photoemission

Indexed keywords

ALKALI HALIDES; CONTROLLERS; COSTS; DATA ACQUISITION; PHOTOEMISSION; THERMOLUMINESCENCE;

DATA ACQUISITION CIRCUIT; DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT; LIGHT INTENSITY; MEASUREMENT SYSTEM; MICROCONTROLLER BOARDS; MICROCONTROLLER-BASED; RELATED COMPOUNDS; THERMOLUMINESCENT MATERIALS;

MICROCONTROLLERS;

EID: 33748937725     PISSN: 17480221     EISSN: 17480221     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-0221/1/05/t05001     Document Type: Article

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