Ossila Xtralien X100 [P2005A1-EU] Source Measure Unit (Source Meter)

The XtralienTM X100 incorporates two source measure units (source-meters) and two precision voltage meters. It is capable of measuring a wide range of research devices including photovoltaics, LEDs and OLEDs, transistors and more.
XtralienTM is a section of Ossila devoted to developing precision test and measurement equipment to make device characterisation easier, faster and cheaper.

The board only design of the X100 not only makes it cheaper than conventional source-measure units or semiconductor-parameter analysers but also makes it easier to integrate into experiments and equipment - all with high precision, easy to use programs for common applications* and simple to use command interface compatible with a wide array of languages including LabVIEW, MATLAB, python and many more.

Applications and Material Systems
The number of uses for the X100 is vast. We've put some of the uses below, however most lab-scale devices that require electrical characterisation in the DC (or low frequency) range between ±10 V and ±100 mA per channel can be measured by Xtralien.

Advantages of XtralienTM 
If there is a single objective for X100 it is to make life easier: easier to start characterising devices, easier to set up and start using, easier to collect the data you need and easier to program.

We think that a key skill for experimental scientists is to be able to control instruments. The X100 is designed to allow every budding engineer access to affordable but precision instrumentation and to supercharge the data collection in your labs.

Demo Programs
To get you up and running quickly, we are building a range of demo programs to do common and useful measurements. Of course the true power of the X100 is the flexibility for people to write their own programs which is why it is simple to interface to in any programming language.

Programming Languages
The X100 has been designed to be simple to use and work with pretty much any and every programming language (at least anything that supports either serial coms or ethernet, which is pretty much everything commonly in use). Common languages that can be used to interface to it are:

• LabVIEW™
  
• MATLAB®
  
• Python
  
• VB
  
• Java and Javascript
  
• Fortran
  
• C / C++
  
• Perl

We provide reference code showing basic functionality for LabVIEW, Matlab and Python and PseudoCode that can be translated into most other programming languages so whatever your favourite language you should be up and running quickly.