Intermodulation distortion and compression point measurement of active integrated antennas using a radiative method

E. Kaverine (1) , S. Palud (2) , F. Colombel (1) , Mohamed Himdi (1) , D. Lemur (1)

1 IETR - Institut d'Électronique et des Technologies du numéRique
2 TDF - TéléDiffusion de France

In this paper, a measurement procedure allowing the characterization of active integrated antennas in terms of intermodulation distortion and compression point inside of a parallel plate cell is presented. The validity of the radiative measurement is shown and compared to the traditional guided procedure. A good agreement between the two methods shows that this approach allows the evaluation of the overall linearity behavior of arbitrary complex integrated antennas and can serve as a complementary tool when the traditional guided method cannot be applied. © 2017, Electromagnetics Academy. All rights reserved.

Keywords: Intermodulation distortion; Active integrated antenna; Complementary tools; Compression points; Integrated antennas; Measurement procedures; Parallel plates; Antennas

Domains: Computer Science [cs]; Networking and Internet Architecture [cs.NI]; Engineering Sciences [physics]; Electronics

E. Kaverine, S. Palud, F. Colombel, Mohamed Himdi, D. Lemur. Intermodulation distortion and compression point measurement of active integrated antennas using a radiative method. Progress In Electromagnetics Research M, 2017, 54, pp.145--152. ⟨10.2528/PIERM16120503⟩. ⟨hal-01484519⟩