Open AccessMicrocontroller‐based servo for two‐crystal X‐ray monochromators
Author(s) -
Siddons D. P.
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
journal of synchrotron radiation
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.172
H-Index - 99
ISSN - 1600-5775
DOI - 10.1107/s0909049597017111
Subject(s) - microcontroller , monochromator , offset (computer science) , servo , x ray , computer science , position (finance) , crystal (programming language) , servomechanism , optics , computer hardware , physics , engineering , electrical engineering , artificial intelligence , operating system , wavelength , finance , economics , programming language
Microcontrollers have become increasingly easy to incorporate into instruments as the architectures and support tools have developed. The PIC series is particularly easy to use, and this paper describes a controller used to stabilize the output of a two‐crystal X‐ray monochromator at a given offset from its peak intensity position, as such monochromators are generally used.