Keithley 2450 – SourceMeter Instrument (200 V, 1 A, 20 W)

Keithley 2450 – SourceMeter Instrument (200 V, 1 A, 20 W)

The 2450 is Keithley’s next-generation SourceMeter source measure unit (SMU) instrument that truly brings Ohm’s law (current, voltage, and resistance) testing right to your fingertips. Its innovative graphical user interface (GUI) and advanced, capacitive touchscreen technology allow intuitive usage and minimize the learning curve to enable engineers and scientists to learn faster, work smarter, and invent easier.

The 2450 is the SMU for everyone: a versatile instrument, particularly well-suited for characterizing modern scaled semiconductors, nano-scale devices and materials, organic semiconductors, printed electronics, and other small-geometry and low-power devices. All this combined with Keithley SMU precision and accuracy allows users to Touch, Test, Invent^® with the new favorite go-to instrument in the lab for years to come.

Learn Faster, Work Smarter, and Invent Easier

Unlike conventional instruments with dedicated pushbutton technology and small, obscure, limited-character displays, the 2450 features a five-inch, full-color, higher resolution touchscreen that facilitates ease of use, learning, and optimizes overall speed and productivity. A simple icon-based menu structure reduces configuration steps by as much as 50 percent and eliminates the cumbersome multi-layer menu structures typically used on soft-key instruments. Built-in, context-sensitive help enables intuitive operation and minimizes the need to review a separate manual.

Fourth-Generation, All-in-One SMU Instrument

The 2450 is the fourth-generation member of Keithley’s award-winning SourceMeter family of SMU instruments and leverages the proven capabilities of the 2400 SourceMeter SMU Instrument. It offers a highly flexible, four-quadrant voltage and current sourwce/load coupled with precision voltage and current meters. This all-in-one instrument gives you the capabilities of a:

Ease of Use Beyond the Touchscreen

In addition to its five-inch, color touchscreen, the 2450 front panel has many features that supplement its speed, user-friendliness, and learnability, including a USB 2.0 memory I/O port, a HELP key, a rotary navigation/control knob, a front/ rear input selector button, and banana jacks for basic bench applications. The USB 2.0 memory port supports easy data storing, saving instrument configurations, loading test scripts, and system upgrades. Plus, all front panel buttons are backlit to enhance visibility in low-light environments.

Four “Quickset” modes simplify user setup. With one touch, the instrument can be quickly configured for various operating modes without the need to configure the instrument indirectly for this operation.

Comprehensive Built-in Connectivity

Rear panel access to rear-input triax connectors, remote control interfaces (GPIB, USB 2.0, and LXI/Ethernet), D-sub 9-pin digital I/O port (for internal/external trigger signals and handler control), instrument interlock control, and TSP-Link^® jacks enables easy configuration of multiple instrument test solutions and eliminates the need to invest in additional adapter accessories.

Convert Raw Data to Information

The 2450 provides a full plotting and sheet view to display sweeps, measurement data, and charting right on the screen. It also supports exporting to a spreadsheet for further analysis, dramatically improving productivity for research, bench-top testing, device qualification, and debugging.

TriggerFlow^® Building Blocks for Instrument Control and Execution

The 2450 incorporates Keithley’s new TriggerFlow triggering system that allows user control of instrument execution. Similar to developing a flow chart, TriggerFlow diagrams are created using four fundamental building blocks:

A TriggerFlow model using a combination of these building blocks can be created from the front panel or by sending remote commands. With the TriggerFlow system, users can build triggering models from very simple to complex with up to 63 block levels. The 2450 also includes basic triggering functions, including immediate, timer, and manual triggering.