Low cost 3D-printing used in an undergraduate project: an integrating sphere for measurement of photoluminescence quantum yield

@article{Tomes2016LowC3, title={Low cost 3D-printing used in an undergraduate project: an integrating sphere for measurement of photoluminescence quantum yield}, author={John J. Tomes and Chris E. Finlayson}, journal={European Journal of Physics}, year={2016}, volume={37}, url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:124621249} }
We report upon the exploitation of the latest 3D printing technologies to provide low-cost instrumentation solutions, for use in an undergraduate level final-year project. The project addresses prescient research issues in optoelectronics, which would otherwise be inaccessible to such undergraduate student projects. The experimental use of an integrating sphere in conjunction with a desktop spectrometer presents opportunities to use easily handled, low cost materials as a means to illustrate… 
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