ABSTRACT: The NC346 and NC5000 Series are designed to be used with an HP8970 or similar Noise Figure Meter. The preferred setup for RF frequencies within the range of the…
AUTHORS: John Sevic, MSEE – Maury Microwave Corporation
PUBLICATION HISTORY: First published in February 2004.
ABSTRACT: A discussion of tuner-based RF device characterization and measurement. A rational for automated…
AUTHORS: Gary Simpson – Maury Microwave Corporation with Jason Horn, Dan Gunyan, David E. Root – Agilent Technologies, Santa Rosa
PUBLICATION HISTORY: First published in December 2008 as a…
ABSTRACT: Low-Earth orbit (LEO) satellite systems are being deployed for mission-critical use cases at an accelerating rate. This brings associated critical test requirements that, if not performed accurately, could lead…
AUTHORS: Mario A. Maury, Jr., Steven L. March and Gary R. Simpson – Maury Microwave Corporation, Ontario, California
PUBLICATION HISTORY: First published in the Microwave Journal; Vol. 30, No.5…
ABSTRACT: A renewed global interest in space exploration is being driven by the search for new resources. The United States, India, Russia, and China have all planned a return to…
ABSTRACT: As part of the 5G revolution, Non-Terrestrial Networks (NTN) have become essential for expanding coverage and enabling global connectivity. When fully realized, the integration of satellite communication systems with…
AUTHORS: Maury Microwave Corporation – Engineering Department
PUBLICATION HISTORY: First published in November 1998
ABSTRACT: Describes a technique for directly measuring large-signal device input impedance on a load or…
ABSTRACT: This document provides Noisecom's method of measuring crest factor of a noise source using a LeCroy Wavepro 7200 Oscilloscope.
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AUTHORS: Maury Microwave, Vertigo Technologies and Virginia Diodes
PUBLICATION HISTORY: Microwave Journal – March 2024
ABSTRACT: The authors introduce the concept of active load pull, discuss the challenges related…
AUTHORS: Mauro Marchetti – Anteverta Microwave B.V., Delft, The Netherlands
PUBLICATION HISTORY: First published in the September 2010 issue of Microwaves and RF magazine and republished in this form (with…
AUTHORS: Mauro Marchetti, Anteverta-mw
PUBLICATION HISTORY: 2013 Doctorate Thesis
ABSTRACT: This thesis concentrates on the development of advanced large-signal measurement and characterization tools that support transistor technology development, model extraction…
ABSTRACT: A major development eort in the design of the Mobile User Objective System (MUOS) is the waveform used in software defined radios (SDR) to provide terminal and manpack UHF…
ABSTRACT: All materials produce noise at a power level proportional to the physical temperature of the material. The noise is generated by random vibrations of conducting electrons and holes in…
ABSTRACT: An A/D converter's finite resolution produces quantization errors as the analog input is partitioned into 2n discrete ranges during an n-bit conversion. All analog values within a given range…
ABSTRACT: The radiometer is a sensitive, accurate, calibrated receiver that is used for remote measurement of temperature. An object emits white noise in an amount proportional to its temperature. If…
ABSTRACT: The Boonton 4540 series RF peak power meters consisting of the 1-channel 4541 and the 2-channel 4542 provide one of the most versatile power measuring systems with the capability…
AUTHORS: J. Zhang, J. Urbonas and G. Esposition, Maury Microwave; A. Arias-Purdue and P Rowell, Teledyne Technologies
PUBLICATION HISTORY: Microwave Journal – February 2021
ABSTRACT: The ability to benchmark…
AUTHORS: R. Hilton and S.Dudkiewicz, Maury Microwave Corp
PUBLICATION HISTORY: MICROWAVE JOURNAL – JUNE 2018
ABSTRACT: This paper reviews the challenges of on-wafer load pull measurements at 5G mmW…
AUTHORS: Maury Microwave and FormFactor
PUBLICATION HISTORY: EverythingRF – February 2024
ABSTRACT: Millimeter waves offer high data speeds, low latency, and increased capacity, enhancing user experiences in activities such as…
ABSTRACT: In this application note we highlight how broadband LTE and WiFi power amplifier (PA) performance can be characterized using Boonton’s high performance USB peak power meter. Figure of merit…
Holzworth's proprietary non-PLL based RF synthesis architectures offer many unique performance advantages over more traditional PLL based synthesizer designs. One of the many important performance advantages is known as Phase…
ABSTRACT: Multi-channel synthesis applications require specific performance parameters that are often overlooked with the design of single channel synthesizer systems. Performance specifications for multi-channel synthesis applications typically require channel to…
AUTHORS: Steve Dudkiewicz, Eng. – Maury Microwave Corporation
PUBLICATION HISTORY: Originally presented by the author at a technical session of the 2nd International IEEE Conference on Microwaves, communications, Antennas and…
The HX2410 was originally a oversized black box on a Holzworth test bench. It was designed and used by Holzworth engineering to observe the true channel-to-channel phase coherency performance (relative ch-ch stability)…
AUTHORS: Gary Simpson – Maury Microwave Corporation
PUBLICATION HISTORY: First published in June 2009.
ABSTRACT: This application note provides step-by-step instructions for setting up a test bench for load…
AUTHORS: Gary Simpson – Maury Microwave Corporation
PUBLICATION HISTORY: First published in June 2009
ABSTRACT: This application note provides step-by-step instructions for setting up a test bench for ultra-fast…
AUTHORS: Maury Microwave Corporation – Engineering Department
PUBLICATION HISTORY: First published in July 2000.
ABSTRACT: A graph of tabular data correlating source match (dB) with peak-to-peak ripple (dB). A…
AUTHORS: John Sevic, MSEE – Maury Microwave Corporation November 2004
PUBLICATION HISTORY: First published in November 2004.
ABSTRACT: The source impedance presented at the DUT reference-plane by the source-tuner…
ABSTRACT: Gallium nitride (GaN) technology has become a staple for high power amplifiers (PAs) used in radar applications. Moreover, the high power and/or the radar application often require the signals…
ABSTRACT: This application note describes how the Boonton 55006 USB Peak Power Sensor can make fast and accurate time and statistical domain power measurements of Wi-Fi 802.11ac signals. This new…
AUTHORS: Maury Microwave Corporation – Engineering Department
PUBLICATION HISTORY: First published in July 1999.
ABSTRACT: A brief discussion of the basics of Intermodulation distortion measurements
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AUTHORS: Maury Microwave Corporation – Engineering Department
PUBLICATION HISTORY: First published in July 1999
ABSTRACT: A brief discussion of the basics of load and source pull measurements.
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AUTHORS: Maury Microwave Corporation – Engineering Department
PUBLICATION HISTORY: First published in July 1999
ABSTRACT: A brief discussion of the basics of noise measurements.
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AUTHORS: Steve Dudkiewicz – Director, Device Characterization Business Development, Maury Microwave Corporation
PUBLICATION HISTORY: First published in the September 2010 issue of the Microwave Journal and republished in this form…
AUTHORS: Maury Microwave Corporation – Engineering Department
PUBLICATION HISTORY: First published in June 1999.
ABSTRACT: Defines repeatability and discusses the repeatability specifications role in, determining how accurately and reliably…
AUTHORS: Steve Dudkiewicz, Marc Schulze Tenberge and Giampiero Esposito Maury Microwave Corp and Travis Barbieri, Freescale Semiconductor
PUBLICATION HISTORY: MICROWAVE JOURNAL – APRIL 2015
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ABSTRACT: Directed energy weapons (DEW) using highly focused energy of lasers are powerful weapons that can destroy long range targets with pinpoint accuracy. These weapons bring significant advantages to traditional…
AUTHORS: Steve Dudkiewicz, Eng. – Maury Microwave Corporation
PUBLICATION HISTORY: May 2010
ABSTRACT: For the first time ever, designers can measure more accurate noise parameters in 1/100th the time to…
AUTHORS: Steve Dudkiewicz – Maury Microwave Corporations
PUBLICATION HISTORY: First published in May 2009.
ABSTRACT: Mobile phones must guarantee proper functioning in non-ideal real-world environments, such as a lost…
AUTHORS: Steve Dudkiewicz, Eng. – Maury Microwave Corporation
PUBLICATION HISTORY: May 2010
ABSTRACT: Active load pull has historically been a product offered in limited release and requiring heavy support. It…
ABSTRACT: IBOC (In-Band On-Channel) technology is the development of new digital communication technologies which sends high quality digital signals that analog AM and FM radio use today. These digital signals…
AUTHORS: Steve Dudkiewicz – Director, Device Characterization Business Development, Maury Microwave Corporation
PUBLICATION HISTORY: First published in the February 2011 issue of the Microwave Journal and republished in this form…
AUTHORS: Mario A. Maury, Jr., MSEE – Maury Microwave Corporation
PUBLICATION HISTORY: First published in July 1989; revised and republished in July 1999 and February 2006.
ABSTRACT: This application…
AUTHORS: Bill Pastori – Maury Microwave Corporation
PUBLICATION HISTORY: First published in March 1990; Revised and republished in July 1999 and February 2006.
ABSTRACT: This application note describes a…
AUTHORS: Maury Microwave Corporation – Engineering Department
PUBLICATION HISTORY: First published in July 1997.
ABSTRACT: A two-page table that shows return loss associated with various VSWR values.
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ABSTRACT: The ONLY solution that can capture every packet/burst (zero gaps) on every MIMO transmit chain for extended test durations at high frame rates, while maintaining time synchronization. The essential…