December 1983 | Technical Note NBS TN 1071
Design and Error Analysis for the WR10 Thermal Noise Standard
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William C. Daywitt, “Design and Error Analysis for the WR10 Thermal Noise Standard,” Technical Note NBS TN 1071, U.S. Department of Commerce, National Telecommunications and Information Administration, Institute for Telecommunication Sciences, December 1983.
William C. Daywitt
Abstract: This note describes the design and error analysis of a WR10 thermal noise power standard. This standard is designed to operate at the boiling point of liquid nitrogen with a noise temperature output accurate to ± 1 K.
Keywords: millimeter wave; diffraction; antenna; error analysis; plane-wave scattering matrix; noise standard; antenna efficiency
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