Agilent Technologies B1542A User manual

Agilent Technologies

Agilent B1542A

Pulsed IV Package for

B1500A/EasyEXPERT

User’s Guide

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In This Manual

This manual provides the information about Agilent Technologies B1542A and

consists of the following chapters. This manual supports the pulsed IV system

software revision A.01.02.

•Chapter 1, “Introduction”

Describes product overview of Agilent B1542A.

•Chapter 2, “Installation”

Explains how to install Agilent B1542A.

•Chapter 3, “Performing System Setup and Compensation”

Explains how to perform system setup and how to update compensation data.

•Chapter 4, “Performing Measurement”

Describes measurement examples by using the pulsed IV test system.

•Chapter 5, “PLSDIV Test Definitions”

Provides reference information for application test definitions (PLSDIV test

definitions) used for the pulsed IV measurement.

•Chapter 6, “PLSDIV TIS Commands”

Provides reference information for execution files (Plsdiv commands, PLSDIV TIS)

used in the PLSDIV test definitions.

•Chapter 7, “Status Code and Error Messages”

Lists the status code and the error messages.

NOTE The pulsed IV test system consists of some instruments, oscilloscope, pulse

generator, source monitor unit, and so on. To use the instruments independently or for

details of the instruments, see the manual of each instrument.

NOTE To get the latest firmware/software/electronic manuals/support information, visit

Agilent Technologies support site (http://www.home.agilent.com), and click

Additional Test & Measurement Products > Parametric Test, click Semiconductor

Parameter/Device Analyzer Series, and click B1500A Semiconductor Device Analyzer.

You can reach Agilent B1500A support site.

Contents

Agilent B1542A User’s Guide, Edition 4

1. Introduction

Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-3

Typical Technical Information. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-6

Accessories and Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-7

2. Installation

Inspection. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-3

RF Probes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-4

DC Probes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-5

Hardware Installation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-6

Installing Instruments. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-6

Connecting GPIB Cables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-6

Installing Pulsed IV Test System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-9

Installing DC + Pulsed IV Test System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-11

Connecting RF Probes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-17

Connecting DC Probes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-18

Software Installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-20

System Requirements. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-20

Installing Software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-21

Installing Cable Compensation Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-21

After Software Installation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-22

Updating Software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-23

If You Remove Pulsed IV Software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-23

Rack-mounting Pulse/dc Switch Units . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-24

Rack-mounting Pulse/dc Switch Units. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-26

Rack-mounting the Infiniium Oscilloscope . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-28

3. Performing System Setup and Compensation

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Pulsed IV System Setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-3

Starting System Setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-4

Starting System Setup for B1542A-003 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-7

System Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-10

Compensation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-11

Drain Cable Replacement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-16

4. Performing Measurement

Theory of Measurement. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-4

Terminal Voltage and Source Output Value. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-5

Before Measurement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-6

Performing System Reset . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-7

Pulse Waveform Measurement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-8

Pulsed Id-Vd Measurement. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-10

Pulsed Id-Vg Measurement. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-12

DC I-V Measurements. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-14

5. PLSDIV Test Definitions

PLSDIV Capt Wave. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-4

PLSDIV DC IdVd . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-7

PLSDIV DC IdVd SMU . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-9

PLSDIV DC IdVg . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-12

PLSDIV DC IdVg SMU . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-14

PLSDIV IdVd . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-17

PLSDIV IdVg . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-21

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PLSDIV IV SMU. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-25

PLSDIV Reset . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-29

PLSDIV Setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-30

Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-31

6. PLSDIV TIS Commands

Command Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-3

Entering Plsdiv Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-5

Command Parameters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-5

Defining Numeric/Vector Input Parameter. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-6

Defining String/Numeric Input Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-6

Defining Numeric Output Parameter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-6

Defining Vector Output Parameter. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-7

Defining String Output Parameter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-7

Defining Format Field . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-7

Setup Example . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-8

Command Reference . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-9

DispMessage. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-10

PlsdivCaptureMonData . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-11

PlsdivCaptureTimeData . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-12

PlsdivCutoffVd. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-13

PlsdivCutoffVg. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-13

PlsdivErrorMessage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-13

PlsdivForceVd . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-14

PlsdivForceVg . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-14

PlsdivInit. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-15

PlsdivMeasureId. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-17

PlsdivSetAdjustStat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-18

PlsdivSetAveraging . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-18

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PlsdivSetDeviceDelay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-19

PlsdivSetMeasTime . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-20

PlsdivSetPulseWidth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-21

PlsdivSetSampling. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-21

PlsdivSetSmoothing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-22

PlsdivSetTransTime . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-23

PlsdivSetVgLevel. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-23

PlsdivUninit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-24

7. Status Code and Error Messages

1Introduction

1-2 Agilent B1542A User’s Guide, Edition 4

Introduction

Agilent B1542A Pulsed IV Package for B1500/EasyEXPERT is a solution package

for the Agilent B1500A or Desktop EasyEXPERT users and provides the automated

pulsed IV test environment. This chapter introduces Agilent B1542A, and consists

of the following sections.

•“Overview”

•“Typical Technical Information”

•“Accessories and Options”

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