Microwave field-to-printed-circuit-board coupling measurements in reverberation chamber

Authors:

  • Silfverskiöld Stefan
  • Bäckström Mats
  • Lorén Jörgen

Publish date: 2002-01-01

Report number: FOI-R--0425--SE

Pages: 56

Written in: English

Abstract

We have recently reported an experimental study of microwave, 0.5 to 18 GHz, field-to-wire coupling for some basic wire geometries above a ground plane performed in Anechoic (AC) and Reverberation Chambers (RC). Receiving parameters and comparisons between measurements in the two chambers were presented. We showed e.g. that the antenna receiving cross section sigma w of wires measured in the RC follows a chi2-distribution with two degrees of freedom. In this report we study the field-to-printed-circuit-board coupling for some single-sided, double-sided and multi-layer printed-circuit-boards (PCBs) performed in RC. We present receiving parameters including the realized gain GR, the impedance mismatch factor q, the input resistance Rin, the receiving cross section sigma w and the effective antenna length he. We show that sigma w of traces on PCBs also follows a chi2-distribution with two degrees of freedom. The effective antenna length he of traces on PCBs is found to be bounded by the wave length lamda. The impedance matched receiving cross section is bounded by lamda2/8pi.