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Copyright 2008
The Pennsylvania State University
Electro-Optics Center
222 NorthPointe Blvd
Freeport, PA 16229
Phone: 724-295-7000 Fax: 724-295-7001
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FACILITIES
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Device Laboratory
- S-band Reliability Test Stand
- Up to 24 devices; base plate temperature drive to +250°C; RF Drive
- X-band Reliability Test Stand
- Up to 24 devices; base plate temperature drive to +250°C; RF Drive
- DC Parametric Analyzer
- Keithley 4200, 100v, 100mA, Medium Power SMU's Power Device Reliability Test
- Tektronix 370B High Voltage (2KV) and 371B High Current (250A) Curve Tracers
- Focal Plane Array (FPA) RadHard Assessment
- RF Test Equipment
- Agilent CW Generator, 10MHz-40GHz
- Agilent E4440A Spectrum Analyzer, 3Hz-26.5GHz
- Agilent E4419B RF Power Meter, 1nW-100mW, 10MHz - 18GHz
- Power Device Reliability Test
- R&K 681A Wafer Prober , 6" Chuck, Semi-Automatic
- Agilent DC Electronic Load, 60V, 120A
- Tektronix 7254B 2.5GHz 4 Channel Oscilloscope
- Tektronix 3014B 100MHz 4 Channel Oscilloscope
- Agilent 81110A Pulse/Pattern Generator 165Hz-330MHz 10V into 50ohms Impedance
- Agilent 4285A LCR Meter with 20A current source, 75KHz-30MHz, AC Source 0V-2.5V
- National Instruments Field Point, 16 Digital I/O, 8 Thermocouple Inputs
- A variety of DC Power Supplies and DVM's for general test purposes up to 12KV
- Prototyping Equipment
- QC7000 PC Board Milling Tool 10"X16", Double Sided board milling capability, RF board milling capability
- Quick Plate, Plating Through-Hole System
- Branson 5500 Ultrasonic Board Cleaner
- Test Automation using National Instruments LabView Professional Development Software
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Environmental Laboratory
- Thermotron, AST-35 HALT/HASS Chamber
- 42"wx42"dx40"h; -100 to 200°C; up to 50grms; 645 lbs product weight; 6 axes vibration; 2 to 10 kHz
- Thermotron F-32 w/Dynamics Solution Shaker (DS-6600LS)
- 40wx40dx36h; -70 to 170°C;661lb DUT weight; 75g sine/40g random; 4" max displacement
- Russells Technical Products: RHD-8-LN2
- 24"x24"x24" workspace; -68 to 177°C; site to 150,000 feet; 10% to 95%RH
- GHI Systems-LSM100 Compact Shock Machine
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Networking Laboratory
- Network Traffic Generator - Candela Technologies LANforge
- Network stability and data throughput testing
- Transmission Testing Handhelds
- SunSet Modular Test Toolkit (MTT) - Field test set for physical layer measurements and Bit Error Rate Testing (BERT)
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Fiber Optics and Photonics Laboratory
- Material Tension and Compression: Instron SFL 3344 with temperature chamber
- Optical Microscopy: Keyence VHX-600E microscope/interferometer
- Fusion Splicing: AFL FSM-40PM, AFL FSM-11S, Ericsson FSU-995-FA
- Fiber and Connector Evaluation: Westover End Face Quality, Norland End Face Geometry
- Optical Vector Analysis C-L Band: Luna Innovations OVA CTe
- WDM Response C Band: Optical Spectrum Analyzer with tunable and WDM sources
- Optical Time Domain Response: Agilent 86100C, Eye Diagram and Bit Error Rate to 12.5 Gb/s
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Software Packages
- Altium Designer 6 - EDA
- ReliaSoft BlockSim 7
- System reliability, availability and maintainability
- ReliaSoft λ-Predict
- Reliability Prediction based on MIL-HDBK-217, Bellcore, and NSWC-98 standards)
- COMSOL - Physical Modeling Software
- LabView
- Graphical programming, multicore development tools, measurement and analysis functionality
- TopAct
- Automates translation of design files and aids in radiation design optimization
- Can be used in conjunction with RadCat, which is a catalog of radiation hardened/tolerant parts, to aid with part selection and design engineering
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