A low frequency (0.5–5 MHz) battery operated sensitive pulsed NQR spectrometer with a transmitter power up to 5 W and a total mass of about 3 kg aimed at detecting 14N NQR signals, predominantly of illicit materials, was designed and assembled. This spectrometer uses a standard software defined radio (SDR) platform for the data acquisition unit. Signal processing is done with the LabView Virtual instrument on a personal computer. We successfully tested the spectrometer by measuring 14N NQR signals from aminotetrazole monohydrate (ATMH), potassium nitrate (PN), paracetamol (PCM) and trinitrotoluene (TNT). Such a spectrometer is a feasible component of a portable single or multichannel 14N NQR based detection device.
F.08 Development and manufacture of a prototype
COBISS.SI-ID: 10726228A leader of programme group is an coauthor of a university textbook: Fundamentals of Building Physics.
D.10 Educational activities
COBISS.SI-ID: 271577856A member of the programme group, Dr. Andreja Abina, completed her PhD in 2015 (supervisor A. Zidanšek). The topic of her research was Terahertz characterization methods for building and construction materials.
D.09 Tutoring for postgraduate students
COBISS.SI-ID: 280331008Members of the programme group are managing the CMag laboratory that bind several leading Slovenian institutions in the field of solid state physics. Experimental work in the lab is ongoing 24 h per day.
D.07 Presiding over a centre/laboratory
Members of the program group (IMFM and IPS) have successfully completed the FP7 project CONPHIRMER. We participated in the building of a portable and easy-to-use sensor for telling genuine medicines from fakes
D.01 Chairing over/coordinating (international and national) projects
COBISS.SI-ID: 17663065