Adjustable Sample Holder With Pressure Contacts for Photoconductivity Measurement

A sample holder is designed to hold and apply pressure contacts on the electrodes of the photoconducting material to study the photoresponse transient. The sample holder is assembled on an aluminium base plate. The needle pointed probes are constrained to move under the spring action to provide the pressure contacts. One of the probes is provided with the facility of ± x directional movement to provide contacts on the samples having different spacing between the electrodes. The setup is simple in design and could find applications for the electrical measurements like dc conductivity and photoconductivity of semiconducting samples and can easily be assembled with scarp materials available in laboratories.