A TEMPERATURE COMPENSATING PREAMPLIFIER FOR DRIVING LONG COAXIAL LINES IN SCINTILLATION SPECTROSCOPY APPLICATIONS.

Abstract

A temperature compensating transistorized, linear, unity gain preamplifier was designed and constructed for use as a coaxial cable line driver in a mobile gamma-ray scintillation spectrometry system. Its differential linearity was better than plus or minus 1 percent with input signals up to 3 volts when loaded with a terminated 93-Ohm, 500-ft. coaxial cable. The use of a simple thermistor temperature compensating netowrk in the preamplifier of the detector-preamplifier package gave a system gain variation normalized at 25C, as a function of temperature of less than + 4 percent between 0C and 25C and less than - 1 percent between 25C and 50C. (Author)

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Feb 11, 1966
Accession Number
AD0635882

Entities

People

  • Raymond A. Taylor

Organizations

  • Naval Radiological Defense Laboratory

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Cables
  • Coaxial Cables
  • Detectors
  • Gamma Rays
  • Linearity
  • Preamplifiers
  • Scintillation
  • Spectrometry
  • Spectroscopy
  • Thermistors
  • Warning Systems

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Electrical Engineering
  • Mathematics or Statistics
  • Thermal Physics or Thermal Science.