Universal LabVIEW-powered Moessbauer spectrometer based on USB, PCI or PXI devices

A new design of the universal Moessbauer spectrometer is presented. Hardware solution is based on commercial-available data acquisition devices working on the USB, PCI or PXI platform controlled by the main application running on the personal computer. Final application allows, in addition to Moessbauer spectra accumulation, the detailed analysis of the acquired detector signal in energy and time domains, and also to tune the velocity driving system separately. The experimental results show a high flexibility in various detectors and velocity transducers usage. It is easy to change the way of operation according to the different experimental requirements. This concept can be used with all common spectrometric benches with different velocity transducers, radioactive sources and gamma-ray detectors. This is a new approach in the Moessbauer spectrometer construction.