2006 AIChE Annual Meeting

Frequency Drift with Temperature in a Tunnel Diode Oscillator (Tdo)

Author

Worku, D. - Presenter, North Carolina A&T State University
The precision with which frequencies can be measured has made the use of oscillators ideal for measurements. Oscillators are widely utilized to study material properties, such as magnetic field, superconductivity, surface impedance, thermal expansion, resistance, Capacitance, and Inductance.In this experiment, it's shown how frequency drifts with temperature in a tunnel diode oscillator. The main objective of this experiment is to measure small changes in inductance and capacitance of each component in an LC circuit driven by tunnel diode using Tunnel Diode Oscillator (TDO), Network Analyzer, and Time Domain Reflectometer (TDR), and analyze how frequency drift, inductance, and capacitance are related with temperature.