Poor Men's SMU, part 4: Calibration

Posted on do 11 februari 2021 in NLnet • Tagged with PM-SMU

As reported in my previous blog on using the AD5522 SMU development board it was mentioned calibration would be needed to get more accurate low-voltage and low-current measurements.

Procedure

An important aspect of doing calibration is the order in which the parameters are calibrated and what references are used during …


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Poor Men's SMU, part 3: Diodes are Forever

Posted on zo 17 januari 2021 in NLnet • Tagged with PM-SMU

This is third part on my adventures with the AD5522 SMU development board. For history you can look at part 1 and part 2.

After getting the SMU working and being able to operate it from Jupyter notebooks on a raspberry Pi I now decided to use the device to …


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Poor Men's SMU, part 2

Posted on za 09 januari 2021 in NLnet • Tagged with PM-SMU

This is a continuation of my adventure with the AD5522 development board (see part 1 ). I did make progress on setting it up but as always it has taken much more time than wanted to debug the setup.

Schrödinger's cat

One problem I had to solve was that the setup …


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Poor Men's Source Measurement Unit (SMU)

Posted on zo 03 januari 2021 in NLnet • Tagged with PM-SMU

SMU ?

In my previous professional life doing semiconductor process development I used so called source measure units (SMUs) for measuring out transistors. Although I don't remember the exact type number, I guess I had access to a HP 4145A semiconductor parametric analyzer.

Nice thing about these units is that these …


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