A treatment of the phase properties of GTEM to open-area test-site correlation techniques

The gigahertz transverse electromagnetic (GTEM) cell is a very attractive environment for the measurement of radiated emissions from electrically small equipment under test (EUTs). However, the GTEM is only accepted by the relevant measurement standards as long as the measurements in a GTEM can be used to predict the field that a particular EUT would produce on an open-area test site (OATS). Techniques for predicting equivalent OATS radiated fields from measurements in a GTEM have been developed. The techniques include the assumption that the dipole moments, which represent the radiation of an EUT, are all in phase. We analyze the case where the EUT dipole moments are not in phase and propose a new upper limit for the predicted OATS radiated field. Our new limit is up to 5 dB greater than the maximum predicted by the existing techniques, but over most of the frequency range the difference with the existing technique is about 3 dB.