Maury Technical Articles and Presentations
Articles of interest that have appeared in the RF and Microwave industry trade journals, and technical presentations from various industry venues.
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Analyzer for Complete Active Component Characterization and Real-Time Harmonic Load Pull
Author: Maury Microwave Corp. and NMDG Engineering November 2004.
A large-signal network analyzer is the utlimate tool to characterize HF active components. It provides and expands VNA capability with spectrum analyzer and vector signal analysis features in a mismatched environment using tuners. It provides complete component characterization with one single connection in a mismatched environment from small-signal to large-signal excitation. Finally, equipment load-pull characterization is turned into a real-time process while providing fundamental and harmonic performance information.
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Advanced Load Pull Concepts [PowerPoint Presentation]
Author: John F. Sevic, June 2004. (First presented at the 7th Annual Device Characterization Users Group Meeting hosted by Maury Microwave at the IMS2004 Exhibition.)
A survey of some advanced concepts in Load Pull device measurement including: Importing LP Data Into CAD Tools (Agilent ADS, AWR Microwave Office); Distributed Pre-matching Theory & Practice; System Verification (Why do it?, manifestations and consequences of error, methods); Real-time Infrared Thermal Imaging Under load Pull