A (historical) review of the six-port measurement technique

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 45, Issue 12 PART 2, 1997, Pages 2414-2417

  Engen, Glenn F ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Automatic network analyzer; Microwave measurements; Microwave metrology; Six port; Vector automatic network analyzer

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC NETWORK ANALYSIS; ELECTRIC NETWORK ANALYZERS; MICROWAVE CIRCUITS;

SIX PORT MEASUREMENT TECHNIQUES; VECTOR AUTOMATIC NETWORK ANALYZERS (VANA);

MICROWAVE MEASUREMENT;

EID: 0031358080     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/22.643853     Document Type: Article

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