Microwave measurements
This chapter will discuss network measurements since the present work deals entirely with transmission lines and transmission line resonators. Also, because the sensors described in this work are intended to be connected directly to a network analyzer, understanding of these measurements is crucial to understanding of the operation and specifications of the sensors. However, in order to understand how a network analyzer can perform its task, it is important to understand how the various microwave quantities are defined and measured. We will therefore discuss some general methods of measurement and then link them to the network analyzer through the use of the S-parameters. We will discuss measurements in terms of the S-parameters since in the present work, we will only have recourse to measurements in transmission lines and cavity resonators and because the instrument we use to perform these measurements is a network analyzer.
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