Determination of Diode Characteristics by Using Arduino

Abstract

In a classical electronic laboratory, there is an experiment where a diode is connected in a series with a resistor and a variable DC voltage source in order to draw the characteristic I-V curve of the diode. Input voltage is gradually increased starting from 0 V, and the potential difference between the diode’s terminals is read by using a voltmeter, and the current flowing through the diode is read by using an ammeter. When the forward voltage exceeds the PN junction’s internal barrier voltage (0.5-0.7 for a Si diode and 0.2-0.3V for a Ge diode), the current begins to pass through. After the internal barrier voltage of the diode, a small increase in the potential difference causes a large increase in the current. In this study, we will focus on a low-cost and easy method of drawing the diode I-V characteristic curve by using the Arduino Uno Board.

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An easy-to-fabricate source measure unit for real-time DC and time-varying characterization of multi-terminal semiconductor devices

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“…Being a digital platform, a microcontroller saves power consumption and reduces the size of instrumentation, which makes it cost-effective. Apart from instrument control, microcontrollers have been rarely employed for device characterizations [7][8][9][10][11], whereas few published reports only focus on the I-V characterization of photovoltaic systems [12][13][14][15][16][17]. The majority of these reported work is based on the unidirectional I-V characterizations, i.e., the bias is swept only in a positive voltage axis and cannot be employed for non-linear devices such as Zener diodes, photodetector, photovoltaic cell.…”

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