Summary of Contents for Keysight Technologies B2900A
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Keysight Technologies Making Bipolar Transistor Characterization using SMU B2900A Precision Source/Measure Unit Demo Guide...
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SMU with the capability to output and measure both voltage and current. The B2900A SMU enables you to make a wide range of current versus voltage (IV) measurements more accurately and quickly than ever before. In addition, the...
03 | Keysight | Making Bipolar Transistor Characterization using SMU - Demo Guide Measurement Concept An IV characteristics measurement of a BJT (Gummel Plot) is made based on the following: – Sourcing a voltage from two channels to activate a transistor. –...
1. Put the device on the device socket in the fixture (The BJT Emitter, Base and Collector are connected to 1, 2 and 3 respectively). 2. Put the N1294A-001 on the Ch 1 output terminals of the B2900A SMU. 3. Put the N1294A-001 on the Ch 2 output terminals of the B2900A SMU.
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05 | Keysight | Making Bipolar Transistor Characterization using SMU - Demo Guide LAB: Make Bipolar Transistor Characterization using Objective Demonstration This demo explains how to make 1. Change the View mode to the Channel 1 Single View a voltage sweep measurement simultaneously using 2 channels to make a bipolar transistor IV 1) Press...
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06 | Keysight | Making Bipolar Transistor Characterization using SMU - Demo Guide to select the Current minimum measurement range and press 5) Rotate to edit it. to set the Current minimum measurement range to 10 nA. Then press 6) Press to change the keys shown in Assist keys then press to set the Measurement Speed Parameter.
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07 | Keysight | Making Bipolar Transistor Characterization using SMU - Demo Guide 10) Rotate to select the Channel 1 Sweep Parameters and set them up as below. (Start: 0 V, Stop: 0.85 V, Points: 86, Step: 10 mV) 3. Change the View mode to the Channel 2 Single View 1) Press repeatedly until the Channel 2 Single View is displayed.
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08 | Keysight | Making Bipolar Transistor Characterization using SMU - Demo Guide 4) Press to configure the Measurement parameter then select to set the Measurement parameter to Current. 5) Press to change the keys shown in Assist keys then press to show Range Sub-Panel.
09 | Keysight | Making Bipolar Transistor Characterization using SMU - Demo Guide to show Sweep Sub-Panel. 9) Press 10) Press , then press to turn on the Single Linear Sweep Mode. After turning on the Single Linear Sweep Mode, you can see the Source Shape which shows the single linear sweep mode.
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Now you can see the measurement result on the GUI of the B2900A SMU as below. 2) To change the Graph scaling of the Y-axis from LINEAR to LOG, rotate and to select the Y-axis scaling.
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Data list. 9. Store the measurement data to a USB flash memory device Attach a USB flash memory device to the USB port on the front panel of the B2900A SMU. 1) If you are not at the top of the Function menu, press repeatedly to return to the top level.
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12 | Keysight | Making Bipolar Transistor Characterization using SMU - Demo Guide 3) Select the folder on USB flash memory device to which the data file should be saved. For example, select DeviceB folder. to select DeviceB (1) Press and rotate (2) Press OPEN to open DeviceB folder folder (3) Press...
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10. Copy the Graph View screen dump to a USB flash memory device 1) If you connect any USB flash memory device to the B2900A SMU, you can copy the Graph View screen dump to the USB flash memory device as a JPEG file. “.jpg” is added to the file name automatically.
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