A new technique for decreasing the characterization time of passive load-pull tuners to maximize measurement throughput

2008 72nd ARFTG Microwave Measurement Symposium, ARFTG 2008

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 92-96

  Rof, Chris ^a,b   Graham, Joshua ^a   Sirois, Jerome ^a   Noori, Basim ^a,b  

^a FREESCALE SEMICONDUCTOR INC   (United States)

^b CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

High power devices; Loadpull measurements; Power amplifiers

Indexed keywords

DATA COLLECTION; HIGH POWER DEVICES; INTERPOLATION METHOD; LOAD-PULL; LOAD-PULL MEASUREMENT; LOADPULL MEASUREMENTS; POINT DENSITY; POTENTIAL MEASUREMENTS; REPRODUCIBILITY; S-PARAMETERS; TIME SAVINGS;

DC GENERATORS; ELECTRIC EQUIPMENT; POWER AMPLIFIERS; TUNERS;

MEASUREMENTS;

EID: 67649226935     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ARFTG.2008.4804298     Document Type: Conference Paper

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