Description
Pneumatic TEM Cell TC-5063C Key Benefits
- Radiation and susceptibility test
- A broadband TEM Cell up to 3GHz
- Small Size, Small footprint for Desktop Use
- High Effective Shielding
- Specifically designed for various types of small wireless devices
- Pneumatic Open / Close Construction
- RS-232C Open / Close control
The TC5063 Pneumatic TEM Cell is your ideal test Cell to compliment your test equipment in a small package but offering the ability to simulate a far field in a near field environment. The TC5063 Pneumatic TEM Cell, is an economic UHF TEM Cell which generates a consistent Electro-magnetic field for testing small RF devices such as RFID, GPS Receivers, cell phones, and other wireless devices. The pneumatic open/close and remote control operation makes it ideal for use on a high volume use. An external test signal can be applied through the available RF side port of the TC5063 TEM Cell which generates a consistent and predictable TEM test field inside the cell.
If you need to incorporate the benefits of a TEM cell but not the pneumatic remote control features for high volume testing, the TC5062C may be a better fit as it offers all the benefits for consistent repeatability in testing but without the need for an air supply, and adds a DUT rotator option which may be useful.
Product History
Pneumatic TEM Cell TC-5063C Theory of Operation
TC-5063A Pneumatic TEM Cell is made to work beyond the typical TEM Cell operating frequency range limited by cell resonance. A typical TEM Cell is a 2-port symmetrical device; RF voltage is applied to one port while the other port is terminated in 50 ohm while maintaining 50W characteristic impedance along the cell. Due to expansion and contraction parts of the cell, the wave propagation beyond certain frequency is no more propagated by TEM mode alone and creates resonance. To eliminate the resonance problem, the half of the cell is replaced by the wave absorbing material. One commercial implementation is G-TEM cell. The size of the G-TEM design is too large for typical small device applications due to the type of absorber used. We borrowed the concept of the G-TEM, but changed the termination implementation scheme, and designed a very compact broad band TEM Cell that can be used on a desktop.
The operation principle of TC-5063A is essentially the same as the TC-5060B TEM Cell. The E-H field inside the test volume is proportional to the input voltage and inversely proportional to the cell height. If a radiating object is inserted inside the cell, the radiated wave toward input port is guided by the transmission line and picked up at the input with a receiver such as a spectrum analyzer. With this method, the RFI from a radiating Device can be measured quantitatively. Since this apparatus is very broadband, it has many applications in the area of EMI, EMS, receiver sensitivity test, etc.
