Williams, D.
, Stant, L.
, Salter, M.
, Ridler, N.
and Aaen, P.
(2019),
Propagating Measurement Uncertainty to Microwave Amplifier Nonlinear Behavioral Models, IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques, [online], https://tsapps.nist.gov/publication/get_pdf.cfm?pub_id=925492
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Propagating Measurement Uncertainty to Microwave Amplifier Nonlinear Behavioral Models
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, Laurence T. Stant, Martin J. Salter, Nick M. Ridler, Peter Aaen
Abstract
We propagate for the first time correlated measurement uncertainties into a nonlinear behavioral model of a millimetre-wave amplifier. We make use of the NIST Microwave Uncertainty Framework to evaluate the uncertainties in large-signal electromagnetic wave measurements of an amplifier, followed by the extraction of X-parameters using an industry standard algorithm. This extracted model is included as a component in a circuit simulator to evaluate gain and efficiency incorporating measurement uncertainty.Citation
IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques
Volume
67
Issue
2
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Keywords
Measurement uncertainty, microwave amplifiers, power amplifiers, microwave measurement, parameter extraction
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Created February 1, 2019, Updated April 4, 2019