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Self-Contained Photon Coincidence Counting With Ni Myrio Ecosystem, Georges Oates Larsen, Andres H. La Rosa Jun 2021

Self-Contained Photon Coincidence Counting With Ni Myrio Ecosystem, Georges Oates Larsen, Andres H. La Rosa

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Digital coincidence counting units (CCU) have made experimental verification of fundamental quantum mechanical principles financially accessible to undergraduate level teaching programs. However, recent implementations of these systems are not easily ported to National Instruments (NI) FPGAs, making them unsuitable for physics departments that have heavily invested in the NI ecosystem. Therefore, there is clear need for a detailed implementation based on an NI FPGA. We present a formal description of one such implementation, based on the NI myRIO (NI's lower-cost, student-oriented offering) which achieves 6.9 ns minimum guaranteed-distinguishable delay and 32.2 MHz peak coincidence counting rate with four input channels …


Quantifying Biotic Voc Emissions From Moss: Air Quality Impacts Of Isoprene And Monoterpenes In Urban Environments, Danlyn L. Brennan Apr 2021

Quantifying Biotic Voc Emissions From Moss: Air Quality Impacts Of Isoprene And Monoterpenes In Urban Environments, Danlyn L. Brennan

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Plant-derived biogenic volatile organic compound (VOC) emissions contribute to secondary emissions of molecules such as ground-level ozone (O3) and PM 2.5 which are known to be harmful to the environment and negatively impact human health. Currently, the most known biogenic VOC emissions are from vascular plants like trees and economically significant crops. Air quality models use known emission rates from these measurements and have many unknown sources yet to identify. Unknown values of emissions occur due to a lack of measurements of a wider variety of plants, especially that of smaller and lesser-studied species of bryophytes; mosses. This …