%0 Journal Article %T Experimental Study of Metal-to-Metal Contact Shapes Effects on Passive Intermodulation %+ Institut d'Électronique et des Technologies du numéRique (IETR) %+ Radio Frequency Systems France (RFS) %A Duteil, Gilles %A Le Cam, Patrick %A Colombel, Frank %A Avrillon, Stephane %A Plet, Jerome %A Harel, Jean P. %< avec comité de lecture %@ 1937-8726 %J Progress In Electromagnetics Research M %I EMW Publishing %V 66 %P 143-150 %8 2018 %D 2018 %R 10.2528/PIERM17101803 %Z Computer Science [cs]/Networking and Internet Architecture [cs.NI] %Z Engineering Sciences [physics]/ElectronicsJournal articles %X This paper describes an experimental study of passive intermodulation due to metal-to-metal contacts with focus on shape influence. This study investigates PIM value of different contact geometric profiles and different contact areas versus normal forces. A complete description of profiles used is done to achieve a relationship between PIM level and contact shape. %G English %L hal-01806898 %U https://univ-rennes.hal.science/hal-01806898 %~ UNIV-NANTES %~ UNIV-RENNES1 %~ CNRS %~ INSA-RENNES %~ IETR %~ IETR_PL %~ STATS-UR1 %~ CENTRALESUPELEC %~ UR1-HAL %~ UR1-MATH-STIC %~ UR1-UFR-ISTIC %~ IETR-OS %~ TEST-UR-CSS %~ UNIV-RENNES %~ INSA-GROUPE %~ TEST-HALCNRS %~ UR1-MATH-NUM %~ IETR-POLARIS %~ NANTES-UNIVERSITE %~ UNIV-NANTES-AV2022