Title :
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
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;
Conference_Titel :
Microelectronics (ICM), 2012 24th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Algiers
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-5289-5
DOI :
10.1109/ICM.2012.6471459
