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Microwave NDE Test Fixture Examples. Craig E. Nelson – Consultant Engineer. When I got interested in microwave non-destructive and more-or-less non-contacting testing of porous silicon, I began to make up a variety of suitable test fixtures.
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Microwave NDE Test Fixture Examples Craig E. Nelson – Consultant Engineer
When I got interested in microwave non-destructive and more-or-less non-contacting testing of porous silicon, I began to make up a variety of suitable test fixtures. These devices were assembled from bits and pieces of microwave hardware that were obtained piecemeal over time. Despite the home-brew nature of these devices, they worked fairly well.
3 Port Circulator Tuned Diode Detector “E” Bend Slide Screw Tuner Waveguide Transition Aperture Table for Test Sample X Band (8-12 GHz) Test Fixture for Planar DUT Samples
Waveguide Transition Aperture Table for Test Sample 10 dB Bidirectional Coupler “H” Bend X Band (8-12 GHz) Test Fixture for Planar DUT Samples
Sensing Aperture Cavity Base Assembly Cavity Top Plate Small Cavity Excitation loop Cylindrical Cavity Wall Demountable 1 GHz Cavity Resonator with Sub-Wavelength Sensing Aperture
Aperture Table Milled Aperture Milled Aperture Collection of Broadband, Small Aperture Coaxial “Hard-line” Microwave Sensors
Summary and Conclusions An interesting variety of practical microwave NDE Microwave Test Fixtures have been presented