Validation of ridge gap waveguide performance using in-house TRL calibration Kit

EuCAP 2010 - The 4th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Uz Zaman, Ashraf ^a   Kildal, Per Simon ^a   Ferndahl, Mattias ^a   Kishk, Ahmed ^a,b  

^a CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LOW LOSS; MANUFACTURING TOLERANCES; MEASUREMENT UNCERTAINTY; S-PARAMETERS; TRL CALIBRATION; WAVEGUIDE TECHNOLOGY; WIDE BANDWIDTH;

ANTENNAS; CALIBRATION; MEASUREMENT ERRORS; RANDOM ERRORS; SCATTERING PARAMETERS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 77955328320     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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