The circuit diagram and design principles of a high-stability chopper wheel motor driver are presented. Experimental results show that this unit can be interfaced to molecular-beam machines to generate supersonic beams with extremely stable root-mean-square and peak velocities fluctuating on a day-to-day basis by less than 0.2%.
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