IGERT Participant: Richard Williams II

IGERT Summer Faculty: Steven Girshick

Substrate Temperature Automation and Control for the Hypersonic Plasma Particle Deposition Process

The Hypersonic Plasma Particle Deposition experimental apparatus currently has a manual temperature control for the first substrate. To control the temperature of the first substrate the experimental apparatus operator must vary the flow rates of the Helium and the Argon gases on the backside of the substrate. The objective is to automate this temperature control process using LabVIEW. This will enable the user to input a desired temperature into the LabVIEW virtual instrument. The LabVIEW virtual instrument will use the American Reliance PD 8-7 power supply and the Luxtron Accufiber Model 10 Thermometer to control the release of the Helium and the Argon gases on the backside of the substrate.