Development of evaluation techniques for air lines in 3.5- and 1.0-mm line sizes

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement

Volumn 58, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1078-1083

  Horibe, Masahiro ^a   Shida, Masaaki ^a   Komiyama, Koji ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

Author keywords

1.0 mm coaxial connectors; 3.5 mm coaxial connectors; Mechanical measurements; Precision air lines; Quarter wave (QW) method; Scattering parameters (S parameters); Small insertion loss measurements; Thru reflect line; Thru reflect match

Indexed keywords

INSERTION LOSSES; MECHANICAL VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; SCATTERING; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WIRES;

1.0-MM COAXIAL CONNECTORS; 3.5-MM COAXIAL CONNECTORS; MECHANICAL MEASUREMENTS; PRECISION AIR LINES; QUARTER-WAVE (QW) METHOD; SMALL INSERTION LOSS MEASUREMENTS; THRU-REFLECT-LINE; THRU-REFLECT-MATCH;

SCATTERING PARAMETERS;

EID: 63449107672     PISSN: 00189456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIM.2008.2008084     Document Type: Conference Paper

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