• DocumentCode
    1038823
  • Title

    A simple, inexpensive electrometer used to measure currents of individual silicon vidicon diodes in the 10-16to 10-15ampere range

  • Author

    Wickstrom, R.A. ; Schroder, Dieter K. ; Nathanson, H.C.

  • Volume
    17
  • Issue
    8
  • fYear
    1970
  • fDate
    8/1/1970 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    634
  • Lastpage
    636
  • Abstract
    A simple, inexpensive, essentially noiseless current-measuring device has been devised with a sensitivity of 10-16to 10-15ampere. Its operation relies on a measurement of the voltage decay of the device under test, the current being proportional to the rate of change of the voltage. Individual diodes of silicon vidicon targets (10-15ampere) and high resistivity layers (1015ohms/square) have been measured. In addition to its simplicity, this technique lends itself to nondestructive in-line testing.
  • Keywords
    Capacitance; Circuits; Current measurement; Electrical resistance measurement; Noise measurement; Sea measurements; Semiconductor diodes; Silicon; Switches; Voltage measurement;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Electron Devices, IEEE Transactions on
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0018-9383
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/T-ED.1970.17042
  • Filename
    1476226
    • Link To Document
    https://search.isc.ac/dl/search/defaultta.aspx?DTC=49&DC=1038823