2017-02-17
Intermodulation Distortion and Compression Point Measurement of Active Integrated Antennas Using a Radiative Method
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Progress In Electromagnetics Research M, Vol. 54, 145-152, 2017
Abstract
In this paper, a measurement procedure allowing the characterization of active integrated antennas in terms of intermodulation distortion and compression point inside of a parallel plate cell is presented. The validity of the radiative measurement is shown and compared to the traditional guided procedure. A good agreement between the two methods shows that this approach allows the evaluation of the overall linearity behavior of arbitrary complex integrated antennas and can serve as a complementary tool when the traditional guided method cannot be applied.
Citation
Evgueni Kaverine, Sebastien Palud, Franck Colombel, Mohamed Himdi, and Dominique Lemur, "Intermodulation Distortion and Compression Point Measurement of Active Integrated Antennas Using a Radiative Method," Progress In Electromagnetics Research M, Vol. 54, 145-152, 2017.
doi:10.2528/PIERM16120503
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