IMAGE: Keithley Curve-Tracer Solutions
Looking For a Curve Tracer Solution?
Keithley Offers Three Great Choices

Keithley offers curve tracer solutions across a range of hardware and software products for analyzing the current-voltage characteristics of:

  • Silicon-based semiconductor components such as Diodes, BJTs, and MOSFETs
  • III-V compound semiconductor components
  • Next generation (beyond CMOS) nanoelectronic components
Contact an applications engineer for advice regarding the curve tracer best suited for your application.

 

Quick and Easy
I-V Testing
Modular I-V Test with
Parametric Extraction
Turnkey Semiconductor Characterization
Keithley
Curve-Tracer Solutions:
Built-in Interactive I-V Web Interface (TSP Express) in Series 2600A SourceMeters ACS Basic Edition Software; and, Series 2600A or Series 2400 SourceMeter instruments 4200-SCS with KITE for Fully Integrated  I-V Characterization, with C-V and Pulse Capabilities

Functionality

  • Linear/Log sweeps, pulse, custom sweeps, single-point source-measures.
  • Uses Series 2600A’s new Application Programming Interface for precision timing and channel synchronization.
  • Applications range from early device research through development, quality verification, and failure analysis
  • 100 built-in parametric characterizations quickly provide the information needed to verify a component’s performance vs. its specifications.
  • Lab grade DC, CV and pulse device characterization, real-time plotting, and analysis with high precision and sub-femtoamp resolution.

Features

  • TSP Express Software is embedded in the internal LXI web page of all Series 2600A instruments
  • Easy access to instrument functionality via pre-configured test modules
  • Data can be viewed in graphical or tabular formats and can be readily exported to a “.csv” file
  • Simplified user interface that eliminates confusing test jargon
  • Single- and multi-test modes
  • Rich set of easy-to-access test libraries
  • Quick comparisons of results with saved data
  • Script editor
  • Complete database archive with full formulator, graph, and sheet
  • Quick test setup leads to results faster
  • No programming necessary, resulting in reduced test development time and cost savings
  • Unique Remote PreAmps extend the resolution of SMUs to 0.1fA
  • New pulse, pulse I-V, and C-V capabilities for advanced semiconductor testing
  • New scope card provides integrated scope and pulse measure functionality
  • Self-contained PC provides fast test setup, powerful data analysis, graphing and printing, and on-board mass storage of test results

Typical Users

  • Technicians, graduate assistants, chemists, physicists, or others who are not test experts
  • Technicians, graduate assistants, chemists, physicists, or others who are not test experts
  • Labs involved in semiconductor product development
  • Incoming inspection and QA group
  • Researchers investigating the properties of novel devices
  • Semiconductor Researchers
  • Reliability Engineers
  • Die Sort Engineers
  • Process Development Engineers
Contact an applications engineer for advice regarding the curve tracer best suited for your application.