Sensitivity Analysis of TRL Calibration in Waveguide Integrated Membrane CircuitsShow others and affiliations
2013 (English)In: IEEE Transactions on Terahertz Science and Technology, ISSN 2156-342X, Vol. 3, no 5, p. 558-565Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]
We present a sensitivity analysis on TRL calibrated S-parameter measurements of membrane circuits in the WR-03 waveguide band (220-325 GHz). The impact of waveguide and membrane circuit misalignment, as well as waveguide dimension mismatch is investigated. The analysis is performed for the thru-reflect-line (TRL) calibration applied to E-plane split waveguide blocks carrying membrane circuits. The analysis shows a large influence of the waveguide width tolerance on transmission and reflection phase after the TRL calibration. For a 20 mm long rectangular waveguide with a ± 5 µm width tolerance a phase uncertainty as large as ± 45° for reflection and ± 30° for transmission measurements is observed.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
2013. Vol. 3, no 5, p. 558-565
Keywords [en]
calibration, measurements, membrane, monolithic integrated circuits (MICs), scattering parameters, sensitivity analysis, submillimeter waveterahertz (THz), thru-reflect-line (TRL), vector network analyzer (VNA)
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Natural Sciences
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URN: urn:nbn:se:ri:diva-6496DOI: 10.1109/TTHZ.2013.2274371Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-84884772986Local ID: 15824OAI: oai:DiVA.org:ri-6496DiVA, id: diva2:964334
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