Keysight Technologies E4980A Operator's manual

Quick Demo Guide
Keysight Technologies E4980A Precision LCR Meter, 20 Hz to 2 MHz
E4980A Precision LCR Meter
Procedure overview
1. Preset system
2. Perform compensation of xture
3. Set measurement parameters
4. Connect DUT and measure at a single frequency
5. Set up list sweep table
6. Set trigger mode and make sweep measurement
In this demo...
– Measurement of chip SMD device
– Fixture compensation
– List sweep
Required Instrument and xture
Fixture for SMD device
(16034E/G/H, 16334A)
If the xture for SMD device is not available, it is pos-
sible to perform the same procedure with following
xtures. Use lead components in this case.
16047D 16089A/B/C/D/E16047E
1. Preset system
a. Press [Preset] front panel key
b. Press CLEAR SET&CORR softkey
c. Press OK softkey (wait about 20 seconds…)
2. Perform compensation of xture
a. Set xture to UNKNOWN terminals
b. Press [Meas Setup] front panel key
c. Select CORRECTION softkey
d. Move cursor onto OPEN eld by pressing
[▼] front panel key
e. Make open condition for the test xture
To make open condition, adjust the distance of the
two electrodes so that the separation becomes equal
to the length of the DUT (Figure 1)
f. Press MEAS OPEN softkey to perform open
correction
g. Press ON softkey
To activate Open correction, the status of the OPEN
eld should be changed from “OFF” to “ON.” (Figure 2)
Figure 1. Make open condition (for 16034E/G/H).
Figure 2. Turned on OPEN correction.
h. Make short condition for the test xture
i. Move cursor onto SHORT eld by pressing
[▼] front panel key
j. Press MEAS SHORT softkey to perform short
correction
k. Press ON softkey
To make short condition, short the test xture by
sliding the right (HIGH) electrode to the left so that
two electrodes contact to each other

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Keysight | E4980A Precision LCR Meter, 20 Hz to 2 MHz – Demo Guide
3. Set measurement parameters
a. Press [Display Format] front panel key
b. Move cursor onto FUNC eld by pressing [▼] front
panel key
c. Press MORE softkey
d. Press Z-… softkey
e. Press Z-Fdsoftkey
f. Move cursor onto FREQ eld by pressing [▼] front
panel key
g. Enter 1 MHz (press [1] front panel key then press M
softkey)
4. Connect DUT and measure at single
frequency
a. Connect DUT to the test xture
b. You will see the impedance value (Z) at spot
frequency (Figure 3)
Impedance value can be calculated by following
formula. Inductive device: Z = 2 * PI * frequency * L
Capacitive device: Z = 1 / (2 * PI * frequency * L)
Figure 3. Measured value of 10 uH inductor at 1 MHz.
5. Setup list sweep table (sweep frequency
from 1 kHz to 2 MHz, 201 points)
a. Press [Meas Setup] front panel key
b. Press LIST SETUP softkey
c. Move cursor onto FREQ[Hz] eld by pressing [▼]
front panel key (4 times)
d. Enter 1 kHz (press [1] front panel key then press k
softkey)
e. Press PREV PAGE softkey
f. Enter 2 MHz (press [2] front panel key then press M
softkey)
g. Press FILL LOG softkey
h. Press NEXT PAGE softkey to see that the list
frequency is lled up (Figure 4)
Figure 4. List frequency lled up.
6. Set trigger mode and make measurement
a. Press [Meas Setup] front panel key
b. Move cursor onto TRIG INT eld by pressing [▼]
front panel key (4 times)
c. Press MAN softkey
d. Press [Display Format] front panel key
e. Press LIST SWEEP softkey
f. Press [Trigger] front panel key to make
measurement
By using E4980A Data Transfer Program, measure-
ment data can be easily transferred from the E4980A
to a PC (Figure 5). Visit Keysight website to download
the program.
Figure 5. E4980A Data Transfer Program.