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- Brucalassi, Anna, et al.
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Full System Test and early Preliminary Acceptance Europe results for CRIRES
- 2018
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Ingår i: Ground-Based And Airborne Instrumentation For Astronomy VII. - : SPIE. - 9781510619586
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- CRIRES+ is the new high-resolution NIR echelle spectrograph intended to be operated at the platform B of VLT Unit telescope UT3. It will cover from Y to M bands (0.95-5.3um) with a spectral resolution of R = 50000 or R = 100000. The main scientific goals are the search of super-Earths in the habitable zone of low-mass stars, the characterisation of transiting planets atmosphere and the study of the origin and evolution of stellar magnetic fields. Based on the heritage of the old adaptive optics (AO) assisted VLT instrument CRIRES, the new spectrograph will present improved optical layout, a new detector system and a new calibration unit providing optimal performances in terms of simultaneous wavelength coverage and radial velocity accuracy (a few m/s). The total observing efficiency will be enhanced by a factor of 10 with respect to CRIRES. An innovative spectro-polarimetry mode will be also offered and a new metrology system will ensure very high system stability and repeatability. Fiinally, the CRIRES+ project will also provide the community with a new data reduction software (DRS) package. CRIRES+ is currently at the initial phase of its Preliminary Acceptance in Europe (PAE) and it will be commissioned early in 2019 at VLT. This work outlines the main results obtained during the initial phase of the full system test at ESO HQ Garching.
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- Follert, Roman, et al.
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Characterizing the cross dispersion reflection gratings of CRIRES
- 2016
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Ingår i: Advances In Optical And Mechanical Technologies For Telescopes And Instrumentation Ii. - : SPIE. - 9781510602038 - 9781510602045
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- The CRIRES+ project attempts to upgrade the CRIRES instrument into a cross dispersed echelle spectrograph with a simultaneous recording of 8-10 diffraction orders. In order to transform the CRIRES spectrograph into a cross-dispersing instrument, a set of six reflection gratings, each one optimized for one of the wavelength bands CRIRES+ will operate in (YJHKLM), will be used as cross dispersion elements in CRIRES+. Due to the upgrade nature of the project, the choice of gratings depends on the fixed geometry of the instrument. Thus, custom made gratings would be required to achieve the ambitious design goals. Custom made gratings have the disadvantage, though, that they come at an extraordinary price and with lead times of more than 12 months. To mitigate this, a set of off-the-shelf gratings was obtained which had grating parameters very close to the ones being identified as optimal. To ensure that the rigorous specifications for CRIRES+ will be fulfilled, the CRIRES+ team started a collaboration with the Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt Berlin (PTB) to characterize gratings under conditions similar to the operating conditions in CRIRES+ (angle of incidence, wavelength range). The respective test setup was designed in collaboration between PTB and the CRIRES+ consortium. The PTB provided optical radiation sources and calibrated detectors for each wavelength range. With this setup, it is possible to measure the absolute efficiency of the gratings both wavelength dependent and polarization state dependent in a wavelength range from 0.9 mu m to 6 mu m.
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- Schuppert, Anna, et al.
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Ink jet printing of conductive silver tracks from nanoparticle inks on mesoporous substrates
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Ingår i: Digital fabrication 2011, NIP27 27th international conference on digital printing technologies. - 9780892082964 ; , s. -440
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Conductive tracks are produced by ink jet printing of a commercial silver nanoparticle ink on different substrates. We observed that applying mesoporous coatings on the substrates resulted in metallic conductivity immediately after printing. The influence of the average pore size and some chemical parameters of the coatings were studied, as well as the thermal treatment after printing. We found that using substrates with slightly acidic cationic coating and small pore sizes of about 15 nm resulted in the highest conductivity for the given ink even without any thermal treatment applied. Another crucial parameter found was the smoothness of the surface, which was estimated by the surface gloss. After drying / "sintering" of the printed tracks for 9 min at 100°C in an oven a specific resistance of 13 μΩ·cm (about eightfold that of bulk silver) could be achieved using a commercially available substrate. This is a significant higher value than recently reported conductivities obtained after heating to much higher temperatures. Additionally, some chemical post treatment of the prints by aqueous solutions can be applied for a further increase in conductivity. Furthermore, samples produced were exposed to "photonic sintering" equipment to assess the potential of this technique for inline post-processing of metallic structures on porous substrates.
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