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Measurement of the Stochastic Electromagnetic Field Coupling to an Unshielded Twisted Pair Cable

Published

Author(s)

Christopher L. Holloway, John M. Ladbury

Abstract

Abstract-Measurements of the field-to-wire coupling to an unshielded twisted pair of wires have been carried out in a reverberation chamber. The wires were twisted as a helix around a dielectric support and placed inside the chamber's working volume. The coupled voltage at one end of the line was measured by amplitude and phase for different pitch lengths, frequencies and terminations of the other end using a vector network analyzer. To connect the symmetric wire pair with the asymmetric input of the analyzer a balun was used. For comparison with simulations, the quality factor of the chamber was determined from the coupling between two antennas. The measurements were done for different stirrer positions and the results were analyzed statistically.
Proceedings Title
2014 EMC Europe
Conference Dates
September 1-5, 2014
Conference Location
Gorthburg

Keywords

electromagnetic coupling, immunity testing, reverberation chambers, statistical distributions, transmission lines

Citation

Holloway, C. and Ladbury, J. (2014), Measurement of the Stochastic Electromagnetic Field Coupling to an Unshielded Twisted Pair Cable, 2014 EMC Europe, Gorthburg, -1, [online], https://doi.org/10.1109/EMCEurope.2014.6930987 (Accessed March 28, 2024)
Created September 1, 2014, Updated January 27, 2020