Imperial Consultants

Housed in the Institure for Biomedical Engineering, this facility is focused on the testing and measurement of mixed-signal integrated circuits, targeted towards biomedical application.

The Microelectronics Test Laboratory hosts the following equipment:

• Wentworth Laboratories AWP2000: 150mm Semi-automatic Probe Station
• New-wave Research EzLaze II: Laser cutting (532nm/355nm dual wavelength) system
• Keithley 4200 SCS: Semiconductor Characterisation System, 4 SMU channels, 12 ultra-low leakage channel switch matrix
• Keithley Source Measure Units including 2602 dual-channel and 6430 sub-femtoamp sourcemeters and 6221 ac/dc current source
• LeCroy and Tektronix oscilloscopes including LeCroy WavePro 7300A (3Ghz, 10GSa/s, 20MS, 4ch), LeCroy WaveSurfer 434 (350MHz, 2GSa/s, 10MS, 4ch), Tektronix DPO4034 (350MHz, 2.5MSa/s, 10MS, 4ch)
• Network/Spectrum/Impedance Analysersincluding Agilent 4395A 10Hz-500MHz network analyser, Agilent E4980A 20Hz-2MHz Precision LCR Meter and Stanford Research Systems SR785 DC-100KHz dynamic signal analyser, Fluke PM6303/A04 RCL Meter 0.1%
• National Instruments data acquisition hardware for multi-channel digital/analogue I/O
• Tektronix TLA5202 logic analyser (2GHz, 68-channel)
• Espec 241 temperature chamber (-40 to 150 celcius range)
• Waveform/signal generatorsincluding Tektronix AWG420 (200MHz, 2-ch), Tektronix AFG3102 (100MHz, 2-ch), Stanford Research Systems DS360: 200KHz Ultra Low Distortion Audio Generator, Stanford Research Systems DS345: 30Mhz Function & arbitrary waveform generator
• Anechoic acoustic shielded chamber(5m x 5m x 2m). This provides a quiet environment to characterise acoustic, optical and mechanicaldevices, and has been used to correct hearing aids.
• Photodiode Characterisation Systemincluding Newport/LOT Oriel tungsten light source, monochromator, integrating sphere, microactuators, neutral density attenuators
• Calibrated instrumentsfor quantifying incident optical and acoustic power

To find out how you can access this facility, please contact us.