Passive-intermodulation analysis between rough rectangular waveguide flanges

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 53, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 2515-2525

  Vicente, Carlos ^a   Hartnagel, Hans L ^a  

^a DARMSTADT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

A spots; Contact resistance; Metal insulator metal (MIM) contact; Metal to metal (MM) contact; Passive intermodulation (PIM); PIM level; Roughness; Waveguide flanges

Indexed keywords

DATA REDUCTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MICROWAVES; MIM DEVICES; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

A-SPOTS; CONTACT RESISTANCE; METAL-INSULATOR-METAL (MIM) CONTACT; METAL-TO-METAL (MM) CONTACT; PASSIVE INTERMODULATION (PIM); PIM LEVEL; WAVEGUIDE FLANGES;

WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 24344443315     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2005.852771     Document Type: Article

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