[HTML][HTML] Passive intermodulation measurement: Challenges and solutions

Z Cai, L Liu, F de Paulis, Y Qi - Engineering, 2022 - Elsevier
In modern wireless communication systems, the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) is one of the
most important performance indicators. When the other radio frequency (RF) performance of …

[HTML][HTML] Passive intermodulation at contacts of rough conductors

A Dayan, Y Huang, A Schuchinsky - Electronic Materials, 2022 - mdpi.com
Passive intermodulation (PIM) is a niggling phenomenon that debilitates the performance of
modern communications and navigation systems. PIM products interfere with information …

Passive intermodulation of analog and digital signals on transmission lines with distributed nonlinearities: Modelling and characterization

DS Kozlov, AP Shitvov… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Passive intermodulation (PIM) often limits the performance of communication systems with
analog and digitally modulated signals and especially of systems supporting multiple …

Distributed passive intermodulation distortion on transmission lines

JR Wilkerson, PG Lam, KG Gard… - IEEE transactions on …, 2011 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A theoretical treatment of distributed electro-thermally induced intermodulation distortion is
developed for microstrip transmission lines. The growth of passive intermodulation distortion …

Passive intermodulation due to self-heating in printed transmission lines

E Rocas, C Collado, ND Orloff, J Mateu… - IEEE Transactions …, 2010 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper proposes a mechanism by which third-order intermodulation distortion, due to
self-heating, is generated in transmission lines. This work shows how transmission lines …

Linear–nonlinear interaction and passive intermodulation distortion

JJ Henrie, AJ Christianson… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2010 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper describes several consequences of a linear-nonlinear interaction that was
recently found to be of importance in microwave circuits that produce passive …

Nonlinear characterization for microstrip circuits with low passive intermodulation

AP Shitvov, DS Kozlov… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Products of passive intermodulation (PIM) generated by weak nonlinearities of passive
circuits subjected to relatively high transmit power of multicarrier signals may cause strong …

Passive intermodulation due to conductor surface roughness

P Ansuinelli, AG Schuchinsky, F Frezza… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The physical mechanism of the experimentally observed dependence of passive
intermodulation (PIM) in printed circuits on conductor surface roughness is studied. It is …

Reconfigurable passive intermodulation behavior on nickel-coated cell array

X Chen, Y He - IEEE Transactions on Electromagnetic …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents a phenomenological study about the passive intermodulation (PIM)
behavior on a reconfigurable nickel-coated cell array. An artificial transmission line with …

Characterisation of nonlinear distortion and intermodulation in passive devices and antennas

A Shitvov, AG Schuchinsky, MB Steer… - the 8th European …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The paper presents a conceptual discussion of the characterisation and phenomenology of
passive intermodulation (PIM) by the localised and distributed nonlinearities in passive …