New Metrology Technique Measures Electric Fields
Tuesday, June 20, 2017 - 11:52
in Physics & Chemistry
Mobile phones and other wireless devices have become central features of life around the globe. It is crucial to the design and deployment of these devices that they have accurate and traceable measurements for electric fields and radiated power. Until recently, however, it was not possible to build self-calibrating probes that could generate independent and absolute measurements of these electric field values. To address this problem, researchers have developed a new method to measure electric fields and a new probe to carry out such measurements. They share their work this week in the Journal of Applied Physics.