ALBA Electrometers

Manufacture, assemble and test precision measurement system from descriptions in CAD, gerber and BOM fiiles. Total amount 15 units.

Scope

MAX IV Laboratory, hereafter MAX IV, is a facility that produces beams of synchrotron light guided in vacuum tubes. To know the position of the beam in the tubes, devices are periodically placed along the beam that generates a small current based on the beam position. To be able to measure this current, MAX IV has joined a collaboration with ALBA, a synchrotron facility in Catalonia, to use their design to produce a number of electrometers. The design, on which the electrometers are based, is the second generation in a row.The previous design has been in use at ALBA for several years.

The electrometer comprises of a number of aluminum parts, circuit boards, a screen, cables and a NUC computer. Some of the mechanical parts and the circuit boards need to be manufactured and the system must be assembled and tested to the level agreed with MAX IV.