A microcontroller-based pulse generator for isothermal I–V measurements

Author

Costagliola, Maurizio ; d´Alessandro, Vincenzo ; Sasso, Grazia ; Rinaldi, Niccolo

Author_Institution

Dept. of Biomed., Electron. & Telecommun. Eng., Univ. of Naples Federico II, Naples, Italy

fYear

2012

fDate

16-20 Dec. 2012

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

An in-house general-purpose microcontroller-based pulse generator is presented and described in detail. Besides producing a pulse train with assigned specifications, the system is provided with an auxiliary unit devoted to measure on-board the I-V characteristics of various device categories. The pulser is successfully adopted for the isothermal characterization of packaged power BJTs and MOS transistors, as well as of on-wafer SiGe:C HBTs.

Keywords

Ge-Si alloys; MOSFET; carbon; heterojunction bipolar transistors; microcontrollers; power bipolar transistors; pulse generators; semiconductor materials; I-V characteristics; MOS transistors; SiGe:C; auxiliary unit; in-house general-purpose microcontroller-based pulse generator; isothermal I-V measurements; on-wafer HBT; packaged power BJT; pulse train; Electrical resistance measurement; Isothermal processes; Pulse generation; Pulse measurements; Semiconductor device measurement; Transistors; Voltage measurement; Isothermal characterization; pulsed measurements; self-heating; thermal resistance;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Microelectronics (ICM), 2012 24th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Algiers

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-5289-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICM.2012.6471459

Filename

6471459