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http://dx.doi.org/10.5515/KJKIEES.2018.29.7.491

Novel Calibration Method of Noise Figure Analyzer and Measurement of Noise Correlation Matrix  

Lee, Dong-Hyun (Department of Radio Science & Engineering, Chungnam University)
Yeom, Kyung-Whan (Department of Radio Science & Engineering, Chungnam University)
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The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science / v.29, no.7, 2018 , pp. 491-499 More about this Journal
Abstract
The conventional calibration method for a noise figure analyzer is to use a noise source. This method is accompanied by a significant irregular ripple in the measurement results, because it does not consider the mismatch of the noise source and noise figure analyzer during calibration. A novel calibration method of the noise figure analyzer is proposed that considers the mismatch between the noise power and noise figure analyzer. A novel noise correlation matrix measurement technique using this method is also proposed. The method determines the noise correlation matrix and the gain of the uncorrected noise figure analyzer using uncorrected noise powers. Then, having determined the gain and noise correlation matrix, the effects of noise figure analyzers were corrected in the measurement results of the noise correlation matrix for the device under test (DUT). Through the proposed method, the measured noise parameters of a DUT showed the same degree of irregular ripples as the result of using the relative noise ratio.
Keywords
Noise Figure Analyzer; Calibration; Irregular Ripple; Mismatch; Noise Wave Correlation Matrix;
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