An automated active source and load pull measurement system

Author

Williams, David J. ; Tasker, Paul J.

Author_Institution

Cardiff Sch. of Eng., Cardiff Univ., UK

fYear

2001

fDate

2001

Firstpage

7

Lastpage

12

Abstract

A fully automated electronic load and source pull measurement system has been developed using standard Agilent ESG Frequency sources. Combined with a vector corrected time-domain waveform measurement system based on the HP-MTA (Microwave Transition Analyser) enabling real time waveform measurements of the current and voltages to be obtained. The system has been validated using measurements performed on a Heterojunction Bipolar Transistor operating in Class B with constant harmonic terminations on the load and source over variations in drive level

Keywords

automatic test equipment; heterojunction bipolar transistors; microwave bipolar transistors; microwave measurement; semiconductor device measurement; Agilent ESG frequency source; automated active source and load pull measurement system; class B operation; harmonic termination; heterojunction bipolar transistor; microwave transistor analyser; real-time waveform measurement; vector corrected time-domain waveform measurement; Current measurement; Frequency measurement; Heterojunction bipolar transistors; Measurement standards; Microwave measurements; Performance evaluation; Real time systems; Standards development; Time domain analysis; Voltage;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

High Frequency Postgraduate Student Colloquium, 2001. 6th IEEE

Conference_Location

Cardiff

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7118-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/HFPSC.2001.962150

Filename

962150