Reappraisal of the Unconditional Stability Criteria for Active 2-Port Networks in Terms of S Parameters

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 1976, Pages 73-81

  Woods, Donald ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC NETWORKS, ACTIVE - ANALYSIS;

SCATTERING PARAMETERS;

SYSTEM STABILITY;

EID: 0016919343     PISSN: 00984094     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCS.1976.1084179     Document Type: Article

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