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A curve tracer is a specialised piece of electronic test equipment used to analyze the characteristics of discrete electronic components, such as diodes, transistors, thyristors, and vacuum tubes. The device contains voltage and current sources that can be used to stimulate the device under test (DUT).
Tektronix 7854 oscilloscope with curve tracer and time-domain reflectometer plug-ins. Lower module is a mainframe of the series Tektronix TM500 and has a digital voltmeter, a digital counter, an old WWVB frequency standard receiver with phase comparator, and function generator.
Cable tester; Capacitance meter; CDMA mobile test set; Chip-scale atomic clock; Circuit breaker analyzer; Class of accuracy in electrical measurements; Comb generator; Continuity tester; Coulombmeter; Cryogenic current comparator; Current clamp; Current transformer; Curve tracer
Analog signature analysis is an electronic component and circuit board troubleshooting technique which applies a current-limited AC sine wave across two points of an electronic component or circuit. The resulting current/voltage waveform is shown on a signature display using vertical deflection for current and horizontal deflection for voltage.
Such applications include I-V characterizing and testing semiconductors and other non-linear devices and materials, where sourcing voltage and current source span across both positive and negative values. To accomplish this, SMUs have four-quadrant outputs. [1] For characterization purposes SMUs are bench instruments similar to a curve tracer.
Octopus is a software package for performing Kohn–Sham density functional theory (DFT) and time-dependent density functional theory (TDDFT) calculations. [ 1 ] Octopus employs pseudopotentials and real-space numerical grids to propagate the Kohn–Sham orbitals in real time under the influence of time-varying electromagnetic fields.
The tester has all these features and can check solid-state devices in and out of circuit. Transistor h fe varies fairly widely with Ic, so measurements with the service type tester give readings that can differ quite a bit from the h fe in the transistor's real life application.
The simplest I–V curve is that of a resistor, which according to Ohm's law exhibits a linear relationship between the applied voltage and the resulting electric current; the current is proportional to the voltage, so the I–V curve is a straight line through the origin with positive slope.