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Pilot Study: Comparison of RF Attenuation in WR5 Rectangular Waveguide (140 GHz to 220 GHz) using VNA Techniques

Project Description

Interlaboratory comparison of RF attenuation measurements in WR5 (140 GHz to 220 GHz) rectangular waveguide using Vector Network Analyser (VNA)-based methods.

This comparison involves NPL (United Kingdom), PTB (Germany) and Virginia Diodes, Inc. (USA).
The traveling standard is a 30 dB rectangular waveguide attenuator and was provided by VDI.

Subjects
Electricity and Magnetism (EM)
Coordinator
James Skinner, NPL (United Kingdom)
E-Mail: james.skinner@npl.co.uk
Coordinating Institute
NPL (United Kingdom)
Participating Partners
PTB (Germany)
Further Partners
VDI, Virginia Diodes, Inc. (USA)

Information

Reg. No.
1816
Collaboration Type
Comparison
Comparison Type
Pilot Study (PS)
Status
in progress
Starting
2026-03-01
Proposed Completion
2026-12-31