Stability tests of electronic calibration units

Author

Zeier, M. ; Hoffmann, J. ; Hurlimann, P. ; Rufenacht, J. ; Wollensack, M. ; Judaschke, R. ; Kuhlmann, Kristian

Author_Institution

Fed. Inst. of Metrol. METAS, Bern-Wabern, Switzerland

fYear

2014

fDate

24-29 Aug. 2014

Firstpage

16

Lastpage

17

Abstract

Electronic calibration units (ECUs) are becoming increasingly important for the calibration of vector network analyzers (VNAs). Undoubtedly, ECUs simplify the calibration of VNAs significantly by reducing the number of required connections. It is however not well understood yet how well ECUs compete with a mechanical calibration in terms of measurement accuracy and stability. This paper summarizes preliminary experimental results that have been carried out to test ECUs with respect to temperature sensitivity, connector repeatability, and stability over time.

Keywords

calibration; circuit stability; network analysers; temperature measurement; ECU; VNA; connector repeatability; electronic calibration units; mechanical calibration; stability testing; temperature sensitivity; vector network analyzer; Calibration; Circuit stability; Connectors; Temperature; Temperature measurement; Temperature sensors; Thermal stability; Measurement technique; calibration; electronic calibration; network analysis; scattering parameters; stability analysis; temperature dependence;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Precision Electromagnetic Measurements (CPEM 2014), 2014 Conference on

Conference_Location

Rio de Janeiro

ISSN

0589-1485

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-5205-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CPEM.2014.6898236

Filename

6898236