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Overview
Curve Tracer CS-5000 Series Instruction Manual
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Capter1
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-5000 series have been improved further for the power of CS-3000 and have
been developed to evaluate power semiconductor devices in such a power electronics market.
Section 1.1 below shows features of CS-5000 series.
1.1 Features
The Curve Tracer CS-5000 series are the instrument which can support up to the maximum peak
voltage of 5000V and the maximum peak current of 1.5kA. 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-5000 series include 4 models: CS-5100, CS-5200, CS-5300 and CS-5400.
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Peak voltage
All models of CS-5000 series have the maximum peak voltage of 5000 V for collector supply.
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High current mode installed (Except for CS-5100)
Models of CS-5200/CS-5300/CS-5400 install the high current mode (HC mode)
- CS-5200: Up to
maximum collector current of 400 A
- CS-5300: Up to
maximum collector current of 1000 A
- CS-5400: Up to
maximum collector current of 1500 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.
CS-5200 and CS-5300 can supply the
maximum of 40 V pulse, and CS-5400
can supply the
maximum of 30 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 Test Leads. (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.)
