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A Wide Bandwidth Printed Wiring Board Transmission Line Probe

Published

Author(s)

Nicholas Paulter, Jon R. Pratt

Abstract

An inexpensive, wide bandwidth, high cycle 50 ω probe is described for making electrical contact to printed wiring board planar transmission lines. The electrical transfer function of the probe and its contact repeatability are presented.
Proceedings Title
Proc. IPC Printed Circuits Expo 1999 Technical Symp
Conference Dates
March 14-18, 1999
Conference Location
Long Beach, CA

Keywords

high frequency probe, planar transmission line, printed wiring board, time-domain reflectometry

Citation

Paulter, N. and Pratt, J. (1999), A Wide Bandwidth Printed Wiring Board Transmission Line Probe, Proc. IPC Printed Circuits Expo 1999 Technical Symp, Long Beach, CA, [online], https://tsapps.nist.gov/publication/get_pdf.cfm?pub_id=13673 (Accessed April 15, 2024)
Created February 28, 1999, Updated October 12, 2021