Nowadays pulsed IV measurements are the preferred method for capturing the current-voltage characteristics of active devices such as field effect and bipolar transistors for nonlinear modelling and/or physical analysis. Pulsed IV characteristics allow to study thermal and trapping effects, which makes this method suitable for power microwave transistors or amplifiers based on new semiconductor technologies (wide band gap). APMS2014RA is a full automated pulsed IV/RF measurement setup and has been developed by MC2 Technologies modelling and microwave characterization experts.
MC2 Technologies offers three different versions of its pulsed system, from 110 to 1000 V, and from 4 to 20 A.
The use of bias tees is highly recommended to improve the accuracy of the pulsed measurement. We propose a bias tee option with our pulsed IV system. You can have a look at MC2 Technologies’ standard options of bias tees right here.
Specifications
Intelligent software
- Intuitive GUI
- Batch available (autonomous system)
- Several modes of convergence
- Several modes of pulsed conditions
- Pulse profile
Two compact pulsers available
- High power: APMS-HPM
- Low power: APMS-LPM
- Very compact pulsers designed to be placed closer to the DUT (on probe station)
- Pulser architecture designed for overshoots reduction
High voltage filter
- Drive negative current
- Embedded Electronic Fuse
| Reference | High-power pulsed heads | High-power pulsed heads | High-power pulsed heads | Low-power pulsed heads | Low-power pulsed heads |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reference | APMS-HPM100V | APMS-HPM600V | APMS-HPM1000V | APMS-LPM04W | APMS-LPM4W |
| Max Voltage | +/- 110V | +/- 600V | +/- 1000V | +/- 12V | +/- 20V |
| Max Current Pulsed | +/- 4A | +/- 20A | +/- 20A | 40mA | 200mA |
| Max Current DC | +/- 4A | +/- 5A | +/- 5A | 40mA | 200mA |
| Max Error (Range) | 5% '+/- 1mA | 5% '+/- 1mA | 5% '+/- 1mA | 5% '+/- 20μA | 5% '+/- 40μA |
| Typical Error | 1% '+/- 0.2mA | 1% '+/- 0.2mA | 1% '+/- 0.2mA | 1% '+/- 10μA | 1% '+/- 20μA |
| Max DC Power | 440W | 3kW | 3.3kW | 400mW | 4W |
| Max pulsed Power | 440W | 12kW | 12kW | 400mW | 4W |
| Min Pulse Width (DUT depending) | 300ns | 1us | 5us | 300ns | 500ns |
| Max Pulse Width | No limits | No limits | No limits | No limits | No limits |
| Min Duty Cycle | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Max Duty Cycle | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Voltage resolution | 18mV | 25mV | 70mV | 1.5mV | 2.5mV |
| ADC resolution | 16 Bits | 16 Bits | 16 Bits | 16 bits | 16 Bits |
| Voltage Tr (DUT depending) | <100ns | <100ns | <1μs | 20-50ns | 50-100ns |
| Voltage Tf (DUT depending) | <100ns | <100ns | <1μs | 20-50ns | 50-100ns |
| Output impedance | <5 Ω | <2 Ω | <1 Ω | 70 Ω | 50 Ω |