US Army Research Laboratory (ARL) Standard for Characterization of Electric-Field Sensors, 10 Hz to 10 kHz

Abstract

The US Army Research Laboratory (ARL) has designed and build a one-of-a-kind electric-field sensor characterization facility. The unique facility features a large parallel plate capacitor with guard rings to control fringing fields, controlled by a custom LabVIEW program and several pieces of test hardware with less than 0.6 combined measurement error. ARLs electric-field characterization facility creates an approximately 1-m3 region with better than 1.5 electric-field uniformity in a smaller physical system than that described in the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Standard 1308-1994. The custom-developed LabVIEW code thoroughly tests the frequency response, linearity, total harmonic distortion, and noise across a 60-dB frequency range of an electric-field sensor in less than 10 min. The instrumentation, calibration, and characterization methods are detailed.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Nov 01, 2016
Accession Number
AD1021150

Entities

People

  • Sean M. Heintzelman

Organizations

  • United States Army Research Laboratory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Sensors

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Accuracy
  • Acquisition
  • Amplifiers
  • Calibration
  • Distortion
  • Dynamic Range
  • Electric Fields
  • Electromagnetic Fields
  • Electronics
  • Frequency
  • Frequency Response
  • Generators
  • Instrumentation
  • Measurement
  • Measuring Instruments
  • Military Research
  • Voltage

Readers

  • Computer Science/Computer Engineering/Data Science/Digital Signal Processing.
  • Plasma Physics / Magnetohydrodynamics
  • Research Science/Academic Research

Technology Areas

  • Microelectronics
  • Microelectronics - Microelectromechanical Systems