The active device characterization and modelling problem in low phase noise microwave oscillator design

Annales des Telecommunications/Annals of Telecommunications

Volumn 51, Issue 7-8, 1996, Pages 344-350

  Llopis, Olivier ^a   Verdier, Jacques ^a   Plana, Robert ^a,b   Graffeuil, Jacques ^a,b  

^a LAAS CNRS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE TOULOUSE   (France)

Author keywords

Characterization; Low noise oscillator; Microwave oscillator; Microwave transistor; Modeling; Phase modulation noise

Indexed keywords

EID: 0007869805     PISSN: 00034347     EISSN: 19589395     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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