The electronics shop provides support for electrical design, construction, and repair. When appropriate, we also provide software development support in the context of instrument design and construction.
Location
Chemistry Building
1101 University Ave.
Room S307 (subbasement)
Madison, WI 53706
Design and Fabrication
We design and build analog and digital circuits for research and teaching laboratories. Common circuits include detector pre-amplifiers, signal conditioning amplifiers, computer interfaces, motor drivers, high voltage and high frequency circuits, and specialized power supplies.
We etch double-sided printed circuit boards (PCB) for prototyping.
Consultation for Circuit Designs and Troubleshooting
If you need advice concerning the electronics for your experiment, stop by the shop, call us, or send us an email.
Electronic Parts Sales
We have an extensive stock of new and obsolete discrete components, integrated circuits, connectors, switches, resistors, capacitors, IC sockets, wire and cable, enclosures, and more.
Equipment Lending
We make short-term loans of equipment including power supplies, meters, function generators, oscilloscopes, etc. to research groups in the chemistry department.
Repair
Items we repair include laboratory instruments, power supplies, hot/stir plates, heatguns, ovens, and more. If you have a question about what we can repair, please stop by, call us, or send us an email.
Training
Electronics
- Electrical Safety
Recommendations for safely working with electrical devices.
- PCB etching
Notes and SOPs related to homemade PCBs.
Projects
Photothermal 3D Printer
Authors Chang-Uk Lee, Kyle C. H. Chin, and Andrew J. Boydston Abstract Direct additive manufacturing (AM) of commercial silicones is an unmet need with high demand. We report a new technology, heating at a patterned …
2023-03-24
Slug Sensor
Segmented slug-flow reactors are increasingly popular for heterogeneous synthesis. Slug formation is a complex process that must be optimized for ideal mass transport. This sensor helps detect slugs in real-time, an invaluable tool when studying …
2022-11-14
IoT Datalogger
The electronics shop has setup an Internet of Things network for data-logging applications within the Department of Chemistry.
2021-06-30Potent Reductants via Electron-Primed Photoredox Catalysis: Unlocking Aryl Chlorides for Radical Coupling
Nicholas G. W. Cowper, Colleen P. Chernowsky, Oliver P. Williams, and Zachary K. Wickens; Journal of the American Chemical Society We describe a new catalytic strategy to transcend the energetic limitations of visible light by …
2020-01-17- More electronics-projects posts
Publications
The yaq project: Standardized software enabling flexible instrumentation
Review of Scientific Instruments
2023-04-12
The Wisconsin Oscillator: A Low-Cost Circuit for Powering Ion Guides, Funnels, and Traps
Journal of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry
2021-11-03
Versatile Open-Source Photoreactor Architecture for Photocatalysis Across the Visible Spectrum
Organic Letters
2021-06-23
Multichannel gas-uptake/evolution reactor for monitoring liquid-phase chemical reactions
Review of Scientific Instruments
2021-04-15
The XyloTron: Flexible, Open-Source, Image-Based Macroscopic Field Identification of Wood Products
Frontiers in Plant Science
2020-07-10- More electronics-publications posts
Outreach
CSHEMA Symposium tour
This year, UW-Madison hosted a symposium on electrical safety for CSHEMA, a professional organization of environmental health and safety (EHS) officers. As part of the symposium, CSHEMA attendees visited the glass and electronics shops to …
2024-04-10Student Shop Managers Consortium 2023
Amber Bartz attended the Student Shop Managers Consortium this year. See her summary slideshow below. SSMC 2023
2023-11-07Shops participate in CHOPS outreach program
The Chemistry Shops participated with other facilities throughout the department to advertise our graduate program via CHOPS: the Chemistry Opportunities program. Click below to see the slides prepared for this program. 2020-10-13-CHOPS Chemistry Opportunities (CHOPs)
2020-10-05Driving Hardware for Instrumentation Discussion at SciPy 2020
Blaise Thompson led a “birds of a feather” session in which students, scientists, and engineers compared notes about strategies for using Python for driving scientific instrumentation. Several people volunteered to present, and over 100 people …
2020-07-08Science Olympiad 2020: Detector Building
Blaise Thompson coached five Madison high schoolers in Science Olympiad. Each student built their own digital thermometer as well as learning the theory and practice of analog and digital detector design.
2020-05-01- More electronics-outreach posts
Electronics Shop Staff
Blaise Thompson
Position title: Instrumentation Scientist
Email:
blaise.thompson
Phone: 608-263-2573
