Capter 1
Overview
Curve Tracer CS-3000 Series Instruction Manual
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Capter 1
Overview
Development of semiconductor technologies is remarkable and diverse; in particular, components
including power devices such as inverters are expanding and progress in the technology for them is
striking in such facilities as heavy electrical equipment (electric power), home electric products, air
conditioning, and traffic. In power electronics technologies, existing pursuit of high efficient use of
power is changing to pursuit of reduced energy density (compacting) or ECO gentle to the
environments. Part development for ECO products is progressing rapidly in transportation industries
such as electric train, automobile industries, and power device manufacturers.
Inverter technologies used in various electronic components such as the air conditioner, refrigerator,
elevator, electric train, hybrid car, solar power generation, and wind power generation are essential
for saving energy. Importance of evaluating power semiconductor devices is increasing to improve
the efficiency in use of energy.
The curve tracer CS-3000 series have been developed to evaluate power semiconductor devices in
such a power electronics market. Section 1.1 below shows features of CS-3000.
1.1 Features
CS-3000 is the newest instrument which can support up to the maximum peak voltage of 3000V
and the maximum peak current of 1000A. It can be used not only for characteristics measurement
of high-voltage or high-current power devices such as the latest IGBT and power MOSFET but also
for characteristics measurement of various semiconductor devices such as transistors, diode, and
LEDs. The measurement results can be saved in the memory or sent to the PC through the USB
port and LAN interface which are attached as standard. Main features are as follows:
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CS-3000 series include 3 models: CS-3100, CS-3200, and CS-3300.
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Peak voltage
All models of CS-3000 series have the maximum peak voltage of 3000 V for collector supply.
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High current mode installed
Models of CS-3200/CS-3300 install the high current mode (HC mode)
- CS-3200: Up to
maximum collector current of 400 A
- CS-3300: Up to
maximum collector current of 1000 A
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All models have 4 collector supply modes.
They have 4 collector supply modes: AC, full-wave rectified, DC, and leakage current as
standard.
Both CS-3200 and CS-3300 can supply the
maximum of 40 V pulse
in the high current mode
(HC mode).
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Handling a measured device
A measured device is set in either of two methods below:
- Connect the terminals of a measured device to the specified terminals in the test adapter, and
set the test adapter in the test fixture. There are CS-500 of standard equipment and CS-501A
to CS-510 options in test adaptors. Refer to Section 2.3 to Section 2.12 for details.
- Connect the terminals of a measured device directly to the specified terminals of the test
fixture through the dedicated wires (Refer to Section 2.3 section for details only when you use
test fixture CS-302.
The test fixture with the measured device mounted is connected to the main unit through the
cable and the connector box. (For details, see Section 3.3.)
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