Design and calibration of a test fixture for antennas fed by microstrip

Author

Wang, Caixia ; Yan, Shu

Author_Institution

Inst. of Commun. Eng., Jiangsu Univ., Zhenjiang, China

fYear

2011

fDate

9-11 Sept. 2011

Firstpage

4237

Lastpage

4239

Abstract

To measure the S-parameters of patch antennas fed by microstrip with vector network analyzer (VNA), a test fixture based on Coplanar Waveguide Ground (CPWG) is designed. Single-port OSL calibration method is used to calibrate the test system to eliminate the directional errors, frequency response errors, source match errors. Finally calculate the actual S-parameters of microstrip antenna.

Keywords

S-parameters; antenna feeds; calibration; coplanar waveguides; frequency response; microstrip antennas; S-parameter measurement; coplanar waveguide ground; directional errors elimination; frequency response errors elimination; microstrip antenna; patch antennas feeding; single-port open-short-load method calibration method; source match errors elimination; test fixture calibration; test fixture design; vector network analyzer; Antenna measurements; Calibration; Fixtures; Microstrip; Microstrip antennas; Reflection; Transmission line measurements; CPWG; Microstrip test fixture; OSL; S-parameteras; Single-port calibration; VNA; formatting;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Electronics, Communications and Control (ICECC), 2011 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Ningbo

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-0320-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICECC.2011.6066455

Filename

6066455