Electronic Design

Packaging/Interconnects: Test Socket With RF Center Probe Eliminates Package-Lead Damage

A high-frequency center-probe test socket features a floating guide plate with a built-in hand stop to protect probes during test and eliminate damage to the package leads. Well suited for automated ...
Electronic Design

Packaging, Materials & Interconnects: RF Center Probe Test Socket Suits 1- To 10-GHz Packages

A molded RF center probe test socket for devices from 1 to 10 GHz accepts devices from 25 to 55 mm2 wide. It's ideal for manually testing devices with pitches down to 0.50 mm and in packages like CSPs ...
EDN

RF probe measures high-frequency electrical fields

The HR-E 40-1 passive near-field probe from Langer EMV-Technik measures electrical RF fields up to 40 GHz. Designed to be connected to a spectrum analyzer, oscilloscope, or similar device, the probe ...
Hackaday

A FET Oscilloscope Probe For Higher Frequencies

It’s a problem that has dogged electronic engineers since the first electrons were coaxed along a wire: that measuring instruments can themselves disrupt the operation of a circuit. Older multimeters ...