Keithley 2460 SMU Product Overview

The Keithley 2460 is The Industry's First Capacitive Touchscreen Source Measure Unit (SMU) Instrument

The 2460, Keithley’s next-generation SourceMeter source measure unit (SMU), a 100V, 7A, 100W instrument, 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. With its 7A DC and pulse current capability, the 2460 is optimized for characterizing and testing high power materials, devices, and modules such as silicon carbide (SiC), gallium nitride (GaN), DC-DC converters, power MOSFETs, solar cells and panels, LEDs and lighting systems, electrochemical cells and batteries, and much more. These new capabilities, combined with Keithley’s decades of expertise in developing high precision, high accuracy SMU instruments, will make the 2460 a go-to instrument for high current applications in the lab and in the rack for years to come.

Key Features

• Capabilities of analyzers, curve tracers, and I-V systems at a fraction of their cost
• Five-inch, high resolution capacitive touchscreen GUI
• 0.012% basic measure accuracy with 6½-digit resolution
• Wide coverage up to 105 V, 7 A DC/7 A pulse, 100 W max
• Source and sink (four-quadrant) operation
• Four Quickset modes for fast setup and measurements
• Built-in, context-sensitive front panel help
• Front panel input banana jacks; rear panel phoenix connections
• 2460 SCPI and TSP® scripting programming modes
• 106 x 255 x 425mm, 4.04Kg weight with bumpers, 88 x 213 x 403mm, 3.58Kg weight w/o bumpers (HxWxD)

One Year Warranty

Contents

2460 SourceMeter® unit, High performance test leads, USB-B-1 Type A to type B USB cable, CS-1616-3 safety interlock mating connector, CA-180-3A TSP-link/Ethernet cable, Quick start guide. Documentation available at www.tek.com. Test script builder software, Kick start start-up software, LabVIEW and IVI drivers available at www.tek.com.

Footnotes:

Calibration services available for this product. Choose from a Standard Certificated Service or an internationally recognised UKAS accredited calibration.

Warnings:

Hazardous voltages may be present on all output and guard terminals. To prevent electrical shock that could cause injury or death, never make or break connections to 2460 while instrument is on.

100 Watts, 7 Amps
The Model 2460 High Current SourceMeter® Source Measure Unit (SMU) Instrument brings advanced Touch, Test, Invent® technology right to your fingertips. It combines an innovative graphical user interface (GUI) with capacitive touchscreen technology to make testing intuitive and minimize the learning curve to help engineers and scientists learn faster, work smarter, and invent easier. With its 7A DC and pulse current capability, the Model 2460 is optimized for characterizing and testing high power materials, devices, and modules such as silicon carbide (SiC), gallium nitride (GaN), DC-DC converters, power MOSFETs, solar cells and panels, LEDs and lighting systems, electrochemical cells and batteries, and much more. These new capabilities, combined with Keithley's decades of expertise in developing high precision, high accuracy SMU instruments, will make the Model 2460 a go-to instrument for high current applications in the lab and in the rack for years to come.

Learn Faster, Work Smarter, Invent Easier
The Model 2460 features a five-inch, full-color, high resolution touchscreen that supports intuitive operation, helps operators become familiar with the instrument quickly, and optimizes overall speed and productivity. A simple icon-based menu structure reduces the number of steps required to configure a test 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 supports intuitive operation and minimizes the need to review a separate manual. These capabilities, combined with the Model 2460's high versatility, simplify its operation in both basic and advanced measurement applications, regardless of the user's previous experience in working with SMU instruments.

Ease of Use Beyond the Touchscreen
In addition to its advanced touchscreen, the Model 2460's front panel offers a variety of features that enhance 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 simplifies storing test results and instrument configurations, uploading test scripts into the instrument, and installing system upgrades. All front-panel buttons are backlit to enhance visibility in low-light environments.

Unmatched System Integration and Programming Flexibility
The 2460 can be configured into a multi-channel I-V test system allowing its embedded Test Script Processor (TSP) to run test scripts. TSP technology also offers channel expansion without a mainframe. Keithley's TSP-Link channel expansion bus, which uses a 100 Base T Ethernet cable, can connect multiple Model 2460s and other TSP instruments such as Keithley's Model 2450 SourceMeter SMU Instruments, Series 2600B System SourceMeter SMU instruments, and Series 3700A Switch/Multimeter systems in a master-slave configuration that operates as one integrated system. The TSP-Link expansion bus supports up to 32 units per GPIB or IP address, making it easy to scale a system to fit an application' particular requirements. The Model 2460 also includes a SCPI programming mode that takes advantage of all of the instrument's capabilities.

Typical Applications
Keithley Model 2460 is ideal for current/voltage characterization and functional test of a wide range of modern electronic devices, including: power semiconductors and materials, telecom power management chipsets, electrochemistry, solar energy generation, LEDs and automotive modules.

Alternatives for 2460:

Keithley recommends Models 2450, 2461, and 2470 SMUs as alternatives.