Possibility of making semiconductor-based sensors autonomous in energy by means of energy harvesting in a nuclear environment.

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R-testbench: a journey in open source programming for remote instrumentation with Python

peer reviewedNowadays, instrumentation involves remote control and test benches automation, because of the required accuracy or to guarantee the safety of the operators. In parallel, open source has known a fast expansion, and has helped scientific communities in industry and research to build strong collaborations to design effective and user-friendly software tools. This paper presents R-testbench, an open source Python library that offers highlevel programming capabilities for instrument remote control and test bench automation. Comparatively to wellknown off-the-shelf software solutions, it has been designed to be open source, reliable, adaptable and userfriendly. It relies on the Virtual Instrumentation Software Architecture (VISA) standard, and enables high-level features, including automatic instrument recognition, thanks to the object-oriented paradigm. It works with PyVISA, a Python front end that calls the VISA libraries, and uses the popular NumPy and pandas packages to offer an optimized data management that is efficient regarding the execution time and the memory use. The proposed library has been validated thanks to continuous integration, performance characterization, and alpha tests in the frame of experiments with nuclear material. It has also been released publicly on the GitHub platform, under the Open Software License 3.0, to be shared with and reviewed by the community.4539 - CDR-Dualibe - Energy Harvesting of Ionising Radiation - Fédération Wallonie Bruxelle

On the Possibility to Use Energy Harvesting on Beta Radiation in Nuclear Environments

peer reviewedThis paper presents experimental results showing that the energy contained in beta radiation can be harvested by using diodes. A single BPW34 photodiode generates around 12 pA dc, so enough to power integrated analog blocks.4539 - CDR-Dualibe - Energy Harvesting of Ionising Radiation - Fédération Wallonie Bruxelle

R-testbench: a Python library for instruments remote control and electronic test bench automation

peer reviewedApplications involving nuclear materials require instruments remote control and electronic test bench automation. Software solutions exist but are either proprietary or low-level programming. In this paper, a high-level open-source software solution, R-testbench, is presented. It is a Python package that allows to manage and control instruments remotely and to fetch data for saving and post-processing. The communication with instruments is built on the well-known and reliable Virtual Instrument Software Architecture (VISA) standard. The main advantages of the proposed solution are the high-level interface and the automatic instrument recognition, which facilitate the user experience. The Python package has been validated by unit tests and by application to a real use case involving experiments with nuclear materials.4539 - CDR-Dualibe - Energy Harvesting of Ionising Radiation - Fédération Wallonie Bruxelle

R-testbench — How to Build a Reliable and Open-source Software Solution for the Remote Control of Measurements Instruments and Experimental Test Benches?

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