Enhanced One-Port Noise Temperature Measurements Using a Noise Figure Meter

57th ARFTG Conference Digest Spring 2001: Best Practices and Strategies for RF Test, ARFTG Spring 2001

Volumn , Issue , 2001, Pages

  Weatherspoon, Mark ^a   Dunleavy, Lawrence ^a  

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT;

C-BANDS; MISMATCH EFFECTS; NOISE SOURCE; NOISE TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; RADIOMETRIC MEASUREMENTS;

NOISE FIGURE;

EID: 84962468664     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ARFTG.2001.327469     Document Type: Conference Paper

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