Optimizing Your Millimeter-Wave Test Capability

Applications are being discovered and developed across a broad range of millimeter-wave (mm-wave) frequencies ranging from 50 GHz to 1 THz. Faster data rates are driving commercial communication applications, while medical, security, and other research areas are investigating the use of ever higher frequencies. Assuring performance and measurement accuracy while minimizing cost are critical in the development of new millimeter-wave applications, if they are to become commercially viable. Testing at millimeter-wave frequencies brings new and different measurement challenges, so minimizing measurement uncertainty is critical in the development of these new technologies.

This white paper discusses the challenges associated with millimeter-wave testing and how to optimize your Vector Network Analyzer (VNA) measurement capability to provide the confidence required to make performance/cost tradeoffs.