Electricity: measuring and testing – Measuring – testing – or sensing electricity – per se – With rotor
Patent
1991-07-09
1992-10-27
Nguyen, Vinh
Electricity: measuring and testing
Measuring, testing, or sensing electricity, per se
With rotor
324 731, 324 77A, 324158D, 36457101, G01R 2704, G06F 1520
Patent
active
051592622
ABSTRACT:
A method for on-wafer testing of microwave devices, such as photodiodes, including a biasing method applicable when the device has a lower end connected to the ground plane of the wafer. Elements having a diode-like characteristic, such as photodiodes, are arranged side-by-side with the device, each preferably being of like geometry with the device, and each having an end connected to the ground plane. A first voltage is applied between the ground conductors of the probe and the ground plane of the wafer to place each element in forward-biased condition thereby creating a return path for the lower end of the device to the ground conductors located on the upper side of the wafer. The method further includes a calibration method for accurate measurements of photodetectors particularly when they are biased as described above, including measuring a performance parameter, such as responsivity, that characterizes the optical performance of the photodetector, measuring a network parameter, such as a reflection coefficient, that characterizes the electrical performance of the photodetector, and determining an adjusted value for the performance parameter based on the network parameter in which the reference plane of the measured performance parameter has been shifted so as to better characterize the intrinsic response of the photodetector without interference by the surrounding measurement environment. Specific steps for removing probe effects and return path diode effects are described.
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Davidson Andrew C.
Rumbaugh Scott H.
Cascade Microtech, Inc.
Nguyen Vinh
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