The spectra below are taken with a netmca-3.
You need to download the file type you choose below
and then see it with your spectroscopy software.
netMCA and Nukeman users would choose the DPS object format,
it carries all calibration & ROI data etc.
A high resolution 16k spectrum
Taken during a demo at Kozloduy September 2016
Pulse generator at 16K, 8K, 4K, 2K and below factors
A set of pre-purchase evaluation spectra taken by a customer
Demo spectrum taken at customers
Taken at a demo at the Sofia reactor with a really old detector
Taken at a demo at the Sofia reactor with a very good detector
Taken using a customers ortec detector.
The detector resolution in its prime has been measured by the manufacturer
as:
at 1332.5 keV - 1.86 keV FWHM (1.85 FWTM/FWHM),
at 122 keV - 0.82 keV FWHM.
netMCA-3 results:
at 1332.5 keV - 1.70 keV FWHM (1.84 FWTM/FWHM),
at 122 keV - 0.78 keV FWHM.
h-16kh15.spc - DPS object format
... h-16kh15.spm - Nucleus-2 format
... h-16kh15.txt - Plain ASCII format
... h-16kh15.spe - ASCII format with some details
Here is what the 1332.5 keV 60Co peak looks like:
A plug-and-play demo using a Canberra 50% detector.
The detector resolution has been measured by the manufacturer
as:
at 1332.5 keV - 1.85 keV FWHM, 3.41 FWTM
at 122 keV - 0.88 keV FWHM.
netMCA-3 results:
at 1332.5 keV - 1.75 keV FWHM, 3.26 FWTM
at 59.5 keV - 0.755 keV FWHM (no 57Co source was at hand so we used 241Am).
koz2016.spc - DPS object format
... koz2016.spm - Nucleus-2 format
... koz2016.txt - Plain ASCII format
... h-16kh15.spe - ASCII format with some details
This is a spectrum taken with a pulse generator.
The same pulse output - somewhat
below 1V peak - was acquired at conversion factors of 16384, 8192, 4096 and
2048 into the
same 16k spectrum at a 4 uS filtering equivalent.
varfddi.spc - DPS object format
varfddi.spm - Nucleus-2 format
varfddi.txt - Plain ASCII format
varfddi.iae - ASCII format with some details
Below is a series of screenshots of the fitting results of the peaks
at 16k, 8k and 4k resolutions in linear and logarithmic Y representation;
the spectrum was calibrated prior to each fitting so that the centroid
of the fitted peak would be at 1332.5 keV.
This spectrum was taken at a demo session at customers with a 20+ years
old 25% N-type detector - which was clearly still in good shape.
The people at that lab were impressed by the fact it took practically no warmup
to get resolutions they had not seen using their analog
equipment (which was top-model NIM in the analog shaping days)
nmc3demo.spc - DPS object format
nmc3demo.spm - Nucleus-2 format
nmc3demo.txt - Plain ASCII format
nmc3demo.iae - ASCII format with some details
Here is what the 1332.5 keV 60Co peak looks like: