Complete system solutions are available through ORTEC from the Integrated Systems Manufacturing Group. For component options, the instrument categories are functionally organized to allow choices of these devices to meet the needs of the experiment.

Since its inception in 1960, ORTEC has consistently supported a full line of NIM (Nuclear Instrument Module) instrumentation for nuclear physics, material science, biochemistry, optics, and chemistry. Experiments that involve simple counting of events or timing systems using various detector signals can be assembled with ORTEC electronics. Systems that measure specifically timed energy spectra or time of flight for various particles can be provided. 

ORTEC NIM Electronics coupled with the Charged Particle Detectors, NaI detectors, and Germanium (HPGe) Photon Detectors provide a virtually limitless variety of combinations for various experiments. 

Example Systems:

Simple Counting Systems:

• Measuring pulse stream counts from Nuclear detectors using fast NIM or TTL pulses

•  Rate monitoring for process control or for safety concerns where the rate needs to trigger an alarm or cause a response in a feedback system

• MCS (Multi-Channel Scaling) display with a variety of applications:
  

  • Scanning fuel rods or drilled core samples
  • Fluorescence decays for specific radioactive lifetimes or certain chemical light fluorescence experiments and certain in vivo calcium experiments
  • Phosphorescence lifetimes for chemical experiments to identify compounds or properties
  • Time-of-Flight for identification of charged particles in space, for particle experiments in high energy physics, or associated particle neutron experiments
  • Correlation of timed events following a specific trigger for counting nuclear events following pulsed neutron activation
  • Light Detection and Ranging (LIDAR) applications for geological mapping or atmospheric studies
  • Enhancing the signal for specific events that can be repeated, but buried in background, by signal averaging the repeating events. An example is measuring a species of ion given off from a target in a noisy background.

Multi-Channel Pulse Height Analysis including:

• Energy Spectroscopy
• Time Spectroscopy
• Scanning for several regions of interest in samples such as drilled core samples from geologic sites, waste containment sites, etc.
• Sampling of medical isotopes to insure the presence of the correct isotope as well as the absence of contaminant isotopes
• Combined Timing and Energy experiments such as Compton Suppression where the energy spectrum is gated using an anti-coincidence gate or energy windows for timing systems for positron annihilation studies
• Multi-Parameter experiments where complete energy spectra from different detectors can be time correlated to produce a three dimensional graphic of the correlated data

For applications involving radioactive isotopes or if your measurement involves timing or a combination of timing and energy, ORTEC can help.