• DocumentCode
    3550315
  • Title

    Accurate experimental characterization of three-ports

  • Author

    Goldberg, S.B. ; Steer, M.B. ; Franzon, P.D.

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., North Carolina State Univ., Raleigh, NC, USA
  • fYear
    1991
  • fDate
    10-14 July 1991
  • Firstpage
    241
  • Abstract
    An accurate procedure is reported for experimentally characterizing microwave devices using two-port measurements. Only reflection measurements are used to determine three-port reflection parameters, and transmission measurements are primarily used to determine three-port transmission parameters, thus considerably reducing the sensitivity of the procedure. No assumptions about the three-port device are made. A comparison with the renormalization method of D. Woods (1977) was made using a microstrip tee, and an improvement in accuracy was confirmed.<>
  • Keywords
    microwave reflectometry; multiport networks; strip lines; microstrip tee; reflection measurements; renormalization method; sensitivity; three-port reflection parameters; three-port transmission parameters; transmission measurements; two-port measurements; Frequency; Impedance measurement; Laboratories; Microstrip; Microwave devices; Microwave measurements; Q measurement; Reflection; Resonance; Scattering parameters;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Microwave Symposium Digest, 1991., IEEE MTT-S International
  • Conference_Location
    Boston, MA, USA
  • ISSN
    0149-645X
  • Print_ISBN
    0-87942-591-1
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/MWSYM.1991.146972
  • Filename
    146972