Publication Date
5-2020
Date of Final Oral Examination (Defense)
12-12-2019
Type of Culminating Activity
Thesis
Degree Title
Master of Science in Electrical and Computer Engineering
Department
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Supervisory Committee Chair
Nader Rafla, Ph.D.
Supervisory Committee Member
Maria Mitkova, Ph.D.
Supervisory Committee Member
Benjamin Johnson, Ph.D.
Abstract
The electrical Testing and Characterization of the devices built under research conditions on silicon wafers, diced wafers, or package parts have hampered research since the beginning of integrated circuits. The challenges of performing electrical characterization on devices are to acquire useful and accurate data, the ease of use of the test platform, the portability of the test equipment, the ability to automate quickly, to allow modifications to the platform, the ability to change the configuration of the Device Under Test (DUT) or the Memristor Based Design (MBD), and to do this within budget. The devices that this research is focused on are memristors with unique test challenges. Some of the tests performed on memristors are Voltage sweeps, pulsing of Voltages, and threshold Voltages. Standard methods of testing memristors usually require hands-on experience, multiple bulky work stations, and hours of training.
This work reports a novel, low-cost, portable test and characterization platform for many types of memristors with a voltage range from -10V to +10V, which is portable, low-cost, built with off-the-shelf components, and with configurability through software and hardware. To demonstrate the performance of the platform, the platform was able to take a virgin memristor from “forming” to operation voltages, and then incrementally change resistances by Voltage Pulsing. The platform within this work allows the researcher flexibility in electrical characterization by being able to accept many memristor types and MBDs, and applying environmental conditions to the MBD, with this flexibility of the platform the productivity of the researcher will increase.
DOI
10.18122/td/1659/boisestate
Recommended Citation
Jones, Lyle, "Low-Cost Test and Characterization Platform for Memristors" (2020). Boise State University Theses and Dissertations. 1659.
10.18122/td/1659/boisestate
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Electrical and Electronics Commons, Electronic Devices and Semiconductor Manufacturing Commons, Other Electrical and Computer Engineering Commons