Proving the Usefulness of a Three-Port Nonlinear Vectorial Network Analyzer Through Mixer Measurements

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement

Volumn 52, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 1834-1837

  Van Moer, Wendy ^a   Rolain, Yves ^a  

^a VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Microwave measurements; Microwave mixers; Multiport systems; Nonlinear measurement system

Indexed keywords

ANALOG TO DIGITAL CONVERSION; BANDWIDTH; COMPUTER HARDWARE; DATA ACQUISITION; DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; MICROWAVE DEVICES; MIXER CIRCUITS;

MICROWAVE MIXERS; MULTIPORT SYSTEMS;

NONLINEAR NETWORK ANALYSIS;

EID: 0344444219     PISSN: 00189456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIM.2003.820467     Document Type: Article

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