Project Report from the year 2014 in the subject Physics - Experimental Physics, grade: Bestnote, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (Institute for Astronomy), course: Semesterarbeit / Projektarbeit, language: English, abstract: This is a report on a research internship at the University of Oxford in the summer of 2014, which describes the final experimental steps in preparing a prototype of a solid state radiation detector based on a PIN diode. This device has multiple possible applications, e.g. it can be used to monitor cosmic radiation and space weather, which is a topic of...