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Agilent B1500A/B1505A Programming Guide, Edition 11 2-3
Remote Mode Functions
Measurement Modes
Measurement Modes
The Agilent B1500 provides the following measurement modes.
• “Spot Measurements”
• “Pulsed Spot Measurements”
• “Multi Channel Pulsed Spot Measurements”
• “Staircase Sweep Measurements”
• “Staircase Sweep with Pulsed Bias Measurements”
• “Pulsed Sweep Measurements”
• “Multi Channel Sweep Measurements”
• “Multi Channel Pulsed Sweep Measurements”
• “Quasi-Pulsed Spot Measurements”
• “Binary Search Measurements”
• “Linear Search Measurements”
• “Sampling Measurements”
• “Quasi-static CV Measurements”
• “Spot C Measurements”
• “Pulsed Spot C Measurements”
• “CV (DC bias) Sweep Measurements”
• “Pulsed Sweep CV Measurements”
• “C-f Sweep Measurements”
• “CV (AC level) Sweep Measurements”
• “C-t Sampling Measurements”
NOTE About Search Measurements
The B1500 supports search measurement to find a point on an I-V curve where a
specified condition is satisfied. For example, it searches for a breakdown voltage or
threshold voltage at a specified current.
Search measurements are performed by one or two SMUs. For two SMUs, one is the
search channel, and the other is a sense channel. When one SMU is used, it serves as
both search and sense channel. Basically, the search channel forces voltage or
current until the search stop condition is satisfied.