Fast multiharmonic active load-pull system with waveform measurement capabilities

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 60, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 149-157

  Thorsell, Mattias ^a   Andersson, Kristoffer ^a  

^a CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Active load pull; equalizer; large signal network analyzer (LSNA); microwave measurements; microwave power field effect transistors (FETs)

Indexed keywords

CURRENT WAVEFORMS; DEVICE UNDER TEST; DYNAMIC RANGE; HIGH FREQUENCY OPERATION; HIGH-POWER; HIGHER ORDER HARMONICS; INPUT POWER; LARGE-SIGNALS; LOAD IMPEDANCE; LOAD-PULL; MEASUREMENT SYSTEM; MEASUREMENT TIME; MULTIHARMONIC; NUMBER OF ITERATIONS; ON-WAFER; OPEN LOOPS; SIMULTANEOUS OPTIMIZATION; TIME INSTANCES; WAVEFORM MEASUREMENT; WIDE-BAND;

EQUALIZERS; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; HETEROJUNCTION BIPOLAR TRANSISTORS; MICROWAVE MEASUREMENT;

FIELD EFFECT TRANSISTORS;

EID: 84855467779     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2011.2170090     Document Type: Article

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