Equipment

The following equipment are major components of the HPRF lab. In addition to the equipment listed below, there are a variety of coaxial adapters and other ancillary hardware for microstrip, coaxial and waveguide measurements up to Ku band.

  • Keysight PNA-X N5242B – 4-port 10MHz to 26.5GHz PNA-X network analyzer with a configurable test set, second source, source/receiver attenuators, combiner, mechanical switches, and 3.5mm eCal module (Keysight N4691D)
  • Keysight M9411A VXT PXI Vector Transceiver – 380MHz-6GHz vector signal transceiver with 1.2GHz modulated bandwidth (2 units, 2.4GHz when combined), PXI rack and controller computer (datasheet, programmer’s manual)
  • Keysight MXR404B – Infiniium MXR-Series real-time oscilloscope, 4 channels, 4GHz, 16GSa/s with 16-channel digital port
  • Keysight U8485A – USB thermocouple power sensor, 10MHz-33GHz (datasheet)
  • Keysight/Agilent E5071B – 4-port 300kHz to 8.5GHz ENA network analyzer (2 units)
  • Keysight/HP 8510B – 0.5-18GHz network analyzer with HP 8514A S-parameter test set
  • Keysight/HP 8350D – 20GHz sweep oscillator (4 units)
  • Keysight/HP 5350B – Microwave frequency counter (2 units)
  • Keysight/HP 437B – Microwave power meter (6 units)
  • Keysight/HP 83630A – 26GHz sweep oscillator
  • Keysight/HP 83620A – 20GHz oscillator
  • Keysight/HP 8620C – Sweep oscillator (one 12-18GHz, one 8-18GHz)
  • Keysight/HP 8970A – Noise figure meter
  • Keysight N6705C DC Power Analyzer – 4-output power supply (8V, 30V, 30V, and 100V) up to 100W
  • Keysight/HP 6653A – 0-35V/0-15A power supply
  • Keysight/HP 6675A – 0-120V/0-18A power supply
  • Keysight/HP 4142B – DC source and monitor
  • Keysight/HP 4280A – 1MHz capacitance-voltage meter
  • Keysight/HP 4284A – LCR meter
  • Keysight/HP 4291B – 1-1800MHz automated impedance analyzer
  • Keysight/Agilent 33220A – 20MHz arbitrary waveform generator (3 units) (datasheet)
  • AR 5S1G4 – 5 Watt 0.8-4.2GHz wideband power amplifier (datasheet)
  • Tektronix 492 – 0.01-18GHz spectrum analyzer
  • LPKF S64 – Automated PC board milling machine (manual) with CircuitPro control software (manual)
  • Cascade Microtech Summit 9000 – RF probe station with several RF and DC probes, RF calibration substrates (2 probe stations)
  • Anritsu 3680K – DC to 40GHz universal test fixture (datasheet, manual)
  • Simulators – PC version of Cadence AWR, Keysight ADS, HFSS, CST Microwave Studio, SPICE (includes LT, and OrCAD PSpice versions), Maple, and MATLAB with several toolboxes
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